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 |
|---|---|
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| dilute | attenuate |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| sportive | frolicsome |