GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| leave-taking | departure |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |