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.

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WordMeaning
callousbeing hardened and thickened
oustto remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity
lividdiscolored by bruising : black-and-blue
unfetterto free from fetters
ambleto go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter
insubordinationdisobedient to authority
deignto condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop
primethe second of the canonical hours
rightfuljust
disapprobationthe act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation