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 |
|---|---|
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| headlong | headfirst |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| pitfall | trap |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| 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 |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |