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 |
|---|---|
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |