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 |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| paltry | inferior |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| debut | a first appearance |