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 |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |