GRE Word List
VENTURESOME
inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring
The meaning of the word venturesome is inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| forebears | ancestor |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
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| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
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