GRE Word List
SUBSIDIARY
furnishing aid or support : auxiliary
The meaning of the word subsidiary is furnishing aid or support : auxiliary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |