GRE Word List
FUTILE
serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective
The meaning of the word futile is serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'état |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |