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 |
|---|---|
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |