GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| 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) |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| stink | to emit a strong offensive odor |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |