GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| lumber | to move ponderously |