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Effective | Vocabulary | Khan Academy


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·Nov 10, 2024

This one's going to work like a charm, wordsmiths, because the word we're featuring in this video is effective. Effective, it's an adjective meaning successful, good at something. The etymology, the derivation of this word helps explain it, I think.

Three Latin parts: first one, f is a modified form of ex, meaning out. The second one, fact or fact, comes from a Latin verb that means to make. Right, and just those two on their own give us effect. Right? An effect is an outcome, a thing that you made happen, what comes out of a process.

I hit a watermelon with a baseball bat; that's a sound effect, right? Oh, okay. And finally, -ive, if an adjective forming suffix, it has a meaning of tending to something. That is, effective tends to or has the quality of making things happen, of making outcomes easily, powerfully.

All right, let's look for similar related words. Think of some words that have that eff- F, that F beginning, or fact or fact in them, or end in -ive, end in -if. I'll put on some music, 10 seconds here we... [Music] Go!

So here are three that I came up with: effusive. This is an adjective meaning pouring out, like you might shower someone with effusive praise. It has that F prefix, right? The modified form of ex meaning out.

Then, confection. This word means candy or sweets, though it literally means a thing that is made together, right? Confection, a mixed thing, a combination of sweets.

And a third related word is factor, a place where things are made: a shoe factory, a chocolate factory, a car factory. That -ory ending is a noun forming suffix that means a place for, like laboratory or observatory.

Let's use the word effective in a sentence or two: Marissa realized how effective her marketing campaign had been when she saw the line stretching around the block. It worked extremely well; the marketing campaign did, and now everyone wants to buy her donuts. Donuts, the universal food!

Let me show you another one. The article that Devin wrote about icky Corp's scummy labor practices was so effective that it put them out of business. Nobody wanted to work with them anymore; these weird business blobs that leave a trail of goo.

I wonder what they made at icky Corp? Actually, no, no! I do not want to know. But here's what I do want to know: I want you to know that you can learn anything. David out.

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