efficient

/ɪˈfɪʃənt/adj

Middle School

Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.

Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.

Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).

effective, efficacious

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Sound Patterns & Rhymes

Rhymes

Words that share the same ending sound pattern

deficient beneficent omniscient proficient sufficient coefficient inefficient insufficient

Alliteration

Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)

ear eat eba eby eck eco eda ede edi edo