GRE Word List
VENTURE
to proceed especially in the face of danger
The meaning of the word venture is to proceed especially in the face of danger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| reverie | daydream |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |