GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| gazette | newspaper |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |