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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malicioushaving or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice
fictitiousof, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary
etymologythe 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
aeriethe nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop
depleteto empty of a principal substance
resilientcharacterized or marked by resilience: such as
buffoona ludicrous figure : clown
impoliticnot politic : unwise
syntheticrelating to or involving synthesis : not analytic
imperceptiblenot perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle