GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| brink | edge |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| cataract | a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light |