GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| brawny | muscular |
| random | a haphazard course |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |