GRE Word List
EFFECTIVE
producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect
The meaning of the word effective is producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| purge | to clear of guilt |