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 |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| lax | loose |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |