GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |