GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guileless | innocent |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| exegesis | exposition |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| determinate | having defined limits |