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 |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| violate | break |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |