GRE Word List
EFFETE
no longer fertile
The meaning of the word effete is no longer fertile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |