GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
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| aver | to declare positively |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |