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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
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| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
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| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |