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 |
|---|---|
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |