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 |
|---|---|
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| trappings | outward signs |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |