GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| devious | wandering |