[QUOTE] [B][SIZE="4"]"efficacious"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=1] [*]marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/inefficacious"]inefficacious[/URL]] [*]producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/effective"]effective[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/effectual"]effectual[/URL]] [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/ineffective"]ineffective[/URL]] [/LIST] Source: [URL="http://www.word.sc/efficacious"]http://www.word.sc/efficacious[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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