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 |
|---|---|
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |