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 |
|---|---|
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
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| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |