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 |
|---|---|
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| dally | to act playfully |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| impinge | encroach |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |