GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |