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 |
|---|---|
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| retiring | reserved |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| lode | waterway |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |