GRE Word List

FIASCO

a complete failure

The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.

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transgressionan act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as
spasmodicrelating to or affected or characterized by spasm
arablefit for or used for the growing of crops
warrantedsanction
bleakexposed and barren and often windswept
backslideto lapse morally or in the practice of religion
recreantcrying for mercy : cowardly
meretriciousof or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution
exchequera department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes