GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| lance | a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry |
| regime | regimen |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |