GRE Word List
EFFIGY
an image or representation especially of a person
The meaning of the word effigy is an image or representation especially of a person.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| motley | variegated in color |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| sleek | slick |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |