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 |
|---|---|
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| empathy | the 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 |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |