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 |
|---|---|
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |