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 |
|---|---|
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |