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 |
|---|---|
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |