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 |
|---|---|
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| opus | work |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |