GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |