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 |
|---|---|
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |