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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |