GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abnegation | denial |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| mulct | fine |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |