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 |
|---|---|
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |