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 |
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| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |