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 |
|---|---|
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |