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 |
|---|---|
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| render | to melt down |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| submerge | to put under water |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |