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 |
|---|---|
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| portly | dignified |