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.
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|---|---|
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| provenance | origin |
| polity | political organization |