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 |
|---|---|
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| fete | festival |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |