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 |
|---|---|
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| rift | fissure |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |