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 |
|---|---|
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |