GRE Word List

SHAMBLES

a meat market

The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.

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pillorya device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked
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innuendoan oblique allusion : hint
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bellicosefavoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
corollarya proposition (see proposition
scotchscottish
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carnivoroussubsisting or feeding on animal tissues