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 |
|---|---|
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| groom | bridegroom |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |