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 |
|---|---|
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| nib | bill |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| censor | a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |