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 |
|---|---|
| cryptic | secret |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |