GRE Word List
EFFICACY
the power to produce an effect
The meaning of the word efficacy is the power to produce an effect.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| atheistic | a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |