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 |
|---|---|
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |
| kismet | fate |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |