Vocabulary Word
Word: auxiliary
Definition: offering or providing help; additional or subsidiary; N: helper; assistant
Definition: offering or providing help; additional or subsidiary; N: helper; assistant
Sentences Containing 'auxiliary'
Of Miss Lavinia, who acts as a semi-auxiliary bridesmaid, being the first to cry, and of her doing homage (as I take it) to the memory of Pidger, in sobs; of Miss Clarissa applying a smelling-bottle; of Agnes taking care of Dora; of my aunt endeavouring to represent herself as a model of sternness, with tears rolling down her face; of little Dora trembling very much, and making her responses in faint whispers.
Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.
Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain off-handed, practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own; the carpenter's pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an auxiliary material.
More Vocab Words
::: punctilious - minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points; stressing niceties of conduct or form; N. punctilio, punctiliousness: careful attention payed to every small exact detail::: contagion - infection (by contact); ADJ. contagious; CF. infectious: that can be passed by infection in the air
::: erode - eat away; wear away gradually by abrasion; Ex. The sea erodes the rocks.
::: polar - of a pole; characterized by opposite extremes; Ex. polar opposites
::: impecunious - without money
::: pediatrician - physician specializing in children's diseases; N. pediatrics
::: soliloquy - talking to oneself (esp. in a play); CF. monologue: soliloquy; long speech by one person (often monopolizing a conversation)
::: auxiliary - offering or providing help; additional or subsidiary; N: helper; assistant
::: archives - public records; place where public records are kept
::: resourceful - clever and imaginative (in dealing with difficult situations); N. resource, resourcefulness
