GRE Word List
ACTUATE
to put into mechanical action or motion
The meaning of the word actuate is to put into mechanical action or motion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| blatant | noisy especially in a vulgar or offensive manner : clamorous |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |