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 |
|---|---|
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |