GRE Word List

FIASCO

a complete failure

The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.

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WordMeaning
arraignto call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge
crassgross
sedentarynot migratory : settled
citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
captiousmarked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections
garishclothed in vivid colors
pellucidadmitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
sparseof few and scattered elements
brazenmade of brass