GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| crass | gross |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| brazen | made of brass |