GRE Word List

INITIATE

to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going

The meaning of the word initiate is to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going.

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bartererto trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services
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
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ineffableincapable of being expressed in words : indescribable
vitalof the utmost importance
emanateto come out from a source
glossarya collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings
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