ACTUATE

PRONUNCIATION: (AK-choo-ayt)

MEANING: verb tr.: To put into motion or action; to activate; to motivate.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin actuare (to actualize), from actus (act), past participle of agere (to drive or do). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw, or move), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, agonistes, ambage, axiomatic, cogent, incogitant, exigent, exiguous, and intransigent. Earliest documented use: 1594.
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ACLU ATE - dinner with the American Civil Liberties Union

ACQUATE - get to know somebody when you have a stuffed nose

ACTLATE - pretend you didn't arrive on time