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 |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |