GRE Word List
SUBSIDIARY
furnishing aid or support : auxiliary
The meaning of the word subsidiary is furnishing aid or support : auxiliary.
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chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
afterlife | an existence after death |
prepossessing | creating prejudice |
subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |