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 |
|---|---|
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |