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initiate - verb

  1. To go about the initial step in doing (something): approach, begin, commence, embark, enter, get off, inaugurate, institute, launch, lead off, open, set about, set out, set to, start, take on, take up, undertake. Informal kick off. See start.
  2. To admit formally into membership or office, as with ritual: inaugurate, induct, install, instate, invest. See accept.

initiate - noun

  1. One who is just starting to learn or do something: abecedarian, beginner, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, neophyte, novice, novitiate, tenderfoot, tyro. Slang rookie. See start.