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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| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| etymology | the 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 |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |