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 |
|---|---|
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| dire | exciting horror |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| asunder | into parts |