GRE Word List
EFFECTUAL
producing or able to produce a desired effect
The meaning of the word effectual is producing or able to produce a desired effect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |