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 |
|---|---|
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant) |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| farce | stuff |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |