GRE Word List
MILITATE
to have weight or effect
The meaning of the word militate is to have weight or effect.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| condiments | something used to enhance the flavor of food |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| prattle | prate |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |