GRE Word List
ENTERPRISING
marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act
The meaning of the word enterprising is marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act.
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| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
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