GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| modish | fashionable |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |