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 |
|---|---|
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |