GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |