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 |
|---|---|
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| kismet | fate |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| edifice | building |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |