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 |
|---|---|
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| 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 |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |