GRE Word List
FIASCO
a complete failure
The meaning of the word fiasco is a complete failure.
Random words
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| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
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| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
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