GRE Word List
INEFFECTUAL
not producing the proper or intended effect : futile
The meaning of the word ineffectual is not producing the proper or intended effect : futile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |