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 |
|---|---|
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| civil | of or relating to citizens |