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 |
|---|---|
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |