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 |
|---|---|
| impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |