GRE Word List
AUXILIARY
offering or providing help
The meaning of the word auxiliary is offering or providing help.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| extant | currently or actually existing |