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Adjectives
1. (adj.) efficacious;
  - marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect;
  - “written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices…of the readers”; “the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough”;

2. (adj.) effective, effectual, efficacious;
  - 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”; “effective teaching methods”; “effective steps toward peace”; “made an effective entrance”; “his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action”; “an efficacious law”;

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