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 |
|---|---|
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| fete | festival |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| lode | waterway |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |