GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| antecede | precede |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |