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 |
|---|---|
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| asunder | into parts |