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 |
|---|---|
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| devious | wandering |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| decipher | decode |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |