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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| abortive | prematurely born |