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 |
|---|---|
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| 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 |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| emanate | to come out from a source |