Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Effete

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adj. :: Worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.



"Uncouth, perhaps, and brutal, too, if judged too harshly by the standards of effete twentieth- century civilization, but withal noble, dignified, chivalrous, and loveable." -- Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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