GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collected | gathered together |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |