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Attestive
- - Attesting; furnishing evidence.
Deceptive
- adjective - designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
Defective
- adjective - Faulty
- having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
- markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"
- not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
Detective
- noun - a police officer who investigates crimes
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
Digestive
- adjective - any substance that promotes digestion
- relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment"
Directive
- adjective - a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity; "the boss loves to send us directives"
- order
- showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress"
Divertive
- - Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
Effective
- adjective - able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution"
- exerting force or influence;
- existing in fact; not theoretical; real; "a decline in the effective demand"; "confused increased equipment and expenditure with the quantity of effective work done"
- 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"
- ready for service; "the fort was held by about 100 effective soldiers"
- works well as a means or remedy; "an eff
Exceptive
- - That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.