GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |