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
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gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
purveyor | one that purveys |
diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
immobility | not moving : motionless |
nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
sidetrack | siding |
wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |