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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
| succor | relief |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |