Question

I am giving 30 points

What does activate mean in the following sentence?

The librarian had to activate Raj’s library card before he could check out any books.


to check out


to limit


to make inactive


to make active

Answer 1

The answer is to make active because in order that for for him to be able to use the card it has to work

Answer 2

The anwser is: to make active, because the Latin root act means “do.” So to "act"-ivate is to make (something) active or operative.

Similar words or phrases are switch on, turn on, start (up), set in motion, or initiate