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 |
|---|---|
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |