GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| brawny | muscular |
| shove | to push along |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |