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 |
|---|---|
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| score | twenty |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| application | an act of applying: |
| purported | reputed |