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 |
|---|---|
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |