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 |
|---|---|
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |