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 |
|---|---|
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| aver | to declare positively |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |