Important Vocabulary Words

ENTREPRENEUR (n) [ahn-truh-pruh-nur]
Forms: Entrepreneur (v)
Definition: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
Sentence: Or your brilliant success as an entrepreneur if you're applying to a business school.

INNOVATION (n) [in-uh-vey-shuh n]
Forms: Innovate (v)
Definition: something new or different introduced.
Sentence: When people want to change, they usually turn first to the strategy of innovation.

CREATIVITY (n) [kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-]
Forms: Creative (adj)
Definition: The use of the imagination or original ideas.

Sentence: In every era, one city is designated as a magnet of creativity and energy.

CREATIVE (adj) [kree-ey-tiv]
Forms: Creativity (n)
Definition: Relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas.
Sentence: By his own account he had a great time writing it, and for the first few hundred pages his creative excitement is infectious.

BEAM (n) [beem]
Forms: Beam (v)
Definition: a long, sturdy piece of squared timber or metal spanning an part of a building, usually to support the roof or floor above.
Sentence:In bridges, beams are supported by piers.


PIER (n) [peer]
Forms:
Definition: (in a bridge or the like) a support for the ends of adjacent spans.
Sentence: The absence of light gives the pier a ghostly appearance.