New Words

Axiom
-noun
1. A self-evident or universally recognized truth; a maxim: "It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services" (Albert Jay Nock).
2. An established rule, principle, or law.
3. A self-evident principle or one that is accepted as true without proof as the basis for argument; a postulate.

Effigy
–noun, plural -gies.

1.	a representation or image, esp. sculptured, as on a monument.

2.	a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.

—Idiom

3.	in effigy, in public view in the form of an effigy: a leader hanged in effigy by the mob.

Dank
–adjective, -er, -est.
1. unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.