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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| postulate | demand |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| heed | to pay attention |