GRE Word List
ENTERPRISE
a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky
The meaning of the word enterprise is a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |