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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| progeny | descendants |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |