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 |
|---|---|
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| catapult | an ancient military device for hurling missiles |
| refrain | curb |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| finished | entirely done |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |