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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| courier | messenger |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |