GRE Word List

EFFETE

no longer fertile

The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.

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voluptuoussuggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form
determinatehaving defined limits
epicureanof or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism
sallowany of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark
dominaterule
permissivegranted on sufferance : tolerated
mealymouthednot plain and straightforward : devious
diaphanouscharacterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
incorporateto unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole
ebbthe reflux of the tide toward the sea