GRE Word List
EFFICACY
the power to produce an effect
The meaning of the word efficacy is the power to produce an effect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |