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 |
|---|---|
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |