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 |
|---|---|
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| apiarist | beekeeper |