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 |
|---|---|
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| slipshod | wearing loose shoes or slippers |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |