GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| bout | a spell or period of activity: such as |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |