GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |