GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |