GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| calorific | caloric |
| impuissance | weakness |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |