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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WordMeaning
cessationa temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop
corpulenthaving a large bulky body : obese
lassitudea condition of weariness or debility : fatigue
simplisticexcessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details
tangentialtouching lightly : incidental
divulgeto make known (something, such as a confidence or secret)
slanderto utter slander against : defame
clapperone that claps: such as
prodigiouscausing amazement or wonder
etymologythe 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