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 |
|---|---|
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |