Definition
a sculpture or likeness, often used in protest
In a sentence
“They burned an effigy of the unpopular leader.”
Similar words
- likeness
- figure
Related vocabulary
Why this word matters: effigy appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.