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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |