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 |
|---|---|
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |