enterprise
The courage and energy to start new and difficult projects.
enterprise in a sentence
- Opening a lemonade stall in the rain showed real enterprise.
- With great enterprise, the children turned the empty plot into a vegetable garden.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to enterprise?
- Aidleness
- Binitiative
- Capathy
- Dlaziness
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B: initiative. The other three mean the opposite of enterprise.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to enterprise?
- Aidleness
- Binitiative
- Cambition
- Ddrive
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A: idleness. The other three mean nearly the same as enterprise.
Words that mean something similar
initiative, ambition, drive
Words that mean the opposite
idleness, laziness, apathy
More words about character & personality
- ferocious: Fierce, wild and violent.
- fickle: Changing your mind often about what you like or want.
- fierce: Very aggressive, strong or wild.
- foe: An enemy, someone who is against you.
- formidable: So powerful or impressive that it makes people nervous.
- gallant: Brave, noble and polite.
- generous: Happy to give or share with others.
- genial: Friendly, kind and cheerful.
More words to explore
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test