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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |