GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |