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 |
|---|---|
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| engender | beget |
| cue | the letter q |
| irate | roused to ire |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |