GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| shambles | a meat market |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |