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 |
|---|---|
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| viable | capable of living |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |