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 |
|---|---|
| dolt | a stupid person |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| seemly | good-looking |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |