GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| civil | of or relating to citizens |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |