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

WordMeaning
bleakexposed and barren and often windswept
empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
sublimeto cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form
tatterto make ragged
dribbleto issue sporadically and in small bits
suppressto put down by authority or force : subdue
tendermarked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond
rostera roll or list of personnel
decantto draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers
emanateto come out from a source