GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| preeminent | having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |