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 |
|---|---|
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |