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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perspicuousplain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation
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glowto shine with or as if with an intense heat
reveriedaydream
ephemerallasting a very short time
satirea literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn