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 |
|---|---|
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| flourish | to grow luxuriantly : thrive |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |