Words that rhyme with undergraduate

  • accentuate
    v 1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate] 2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" [syn: stress, accent, accentuate]
  • actuate
    v 1: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off] 2: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite]
  • at
    n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium [syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85] 2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
  • ate
    n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  • attenuate
    adj 1: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording" [syn: attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened] v 1: weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) [syn: rarefy, attenuate] 2: become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
  • await
    v 1: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, look, await, wait]
  • date
    n 1: the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?" [syn: date, day of the month] 2: a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" [syn: date, escort] 3: a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment, engagement] 4: a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date" [syn: date, particular date] 5: the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date" 6: the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class" 7: a particular day specified as the time something happens; "the date of the election is set by law" 8: sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed v 1: go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart" 2: stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn: date, date stamp] 3: assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings" 4: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see] 5: provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
  • devaluate
    v 1: remove the value from; deprive of its value [syn: devalue, devaluate] 2: lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again" [syn: depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue] [ant: appreciate, apprise, apprize, revalue]
  • disambiguate
    v 1: state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from; "Can you disambiguate this statement?"
  • effectuate
    v 1: produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave" [syn: effect, effectuate, set up]
  • evacuate
    v 1: move out of an unsafe location into safety; "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated" 2: empty completely; "evacuate the bottle" 3: move people from their homes or country 4: create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) 5: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: evacuate, void, empty]
  • evaluate
    v 1: evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"; "access all the factors when taking a risk" [syn: measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value] 2: form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" [syn: evaluate, pass judgment, judge]
  • extenuate
    v 1: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate, palliate, mitigate]
  • fluctuate
    v 1: cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern 2: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated" [syn: fluctuate, vacillate, waver] 3: be unstable; "The stock market fluctuates"
  • graduate
    adj 1: of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate] n 1: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad] 2: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts v 1: receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990" 2: confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year" 3: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune]
  • habituate
    v 1: take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely" [syn: use, habituate] 2: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate, accustom]
  • individuate
    v 1: give individual character to 2: give individual shape or form to; "Language that individuates his memories"
  • infatuate
    v 1: arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her"
  • insinuate
    v 1: introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner; "He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table" 2: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" [syn: intimate, adumbrate, insinuate]
  • menstruate
    v 1: undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11" [syn: menstruate, flow]
  • perpetuate
    v 1: cause to continue or prevail; "perpetuate a myth"
  • postgraduate
    adj 1: of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate] n 1: a student who continues studies after graduation [syn: graduate student, grad student, postgraduate]
  • punctuate
    v 1: insert punctuation marks into [syn: punctuate, mark] 2: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate] 3: interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"
  • sinuate
    adj 1: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn: sinuate, sinuous, wiggly] 2: having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex
  • situate
    v 1: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate, locate] 2: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit]
  • superannuate
    v 1: retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability 2: declare to be obsolete 3: become obsolete 4: retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity
  • reevaluate
    v 1: revise or renew one's assessment [syn: reassess, reevaluate]
  • aydt
  • ait

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