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 |
|---|---|
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |