GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
cartographer | one that makes maps |
quizzical | comically quaint |
chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
suppliant | supplicant |
hallowed | holy |
chafe | irritate |
expound | to set forth : state |