GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| reverie | daydream |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| abnegation | denial |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |