GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |