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 |
|---|---|
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| trample | tramp |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |