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.
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illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
advert | to turn the mind or attention |
duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |