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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
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| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |