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 |
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| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| 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 |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
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