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 |
|---|---|
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| append | attach |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |