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 |
|---|---|
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| swill | wash |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| visage | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |