GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |