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 |
|---|---|
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| concordat | compact |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |