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 |
|---|---|
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |