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 |
|---|---|
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| tome | book |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| parlance | speech |