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 |
|---|---|
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |