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 |
|---|---|
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |