GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vapid | lacking flavor, zest, interest, animation, or spirit : flat |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |