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.
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malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
impolitic | not politic : unwise |
synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |