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 |
|---|---|
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| regime | regimen |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |