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 |
|---|---|
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| submerge | to put under water |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |