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 |
|---|---|
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| lance | a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |