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 |
|---|---|
| impuissance | weakness |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| hap | happening |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| consort | associate |
| cant | the expression or repetition of conventional or trite opinions or sentiments |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |