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 |
|---|---|
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |