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 |
|---|---|
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| slake | subside |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| distend | extend |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |