GRE Word List
MILITATE
to have weight or effect
The meaning of the word militate is to have weight or effect.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
nomenclature | name |
potentate | ruler |
concentric | having a common center |
humdrum | monotonous |
misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |