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 |
|---|---|
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| sidetrack | siding |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
