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 |
|---|---|
| viable | capable of living |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |