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 |
|---|---|
| paradigm | example |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |