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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| trenchant | keen |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |