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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| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
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| alleviate | relieve |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
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