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 |
|---|---|
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| scourge | whip |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |