GRE Word List
ACCESSORY
an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else
The meaning of the word accessory is an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |