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 |
|---|---|
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |