GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |