ancillary
If you use the adjective ancillary to describe your position you are subordinate or supporting something or someone else.
The adjective ancillary originally meant "relating to maidservants" from the Latin, but the element of a female servant has fallen away and now the word merely refers to a position as helpful or subordinate. An example of how something in medicine can be ancillary is after you have surgery you may also take a drug to aid healing — the drug would be considered ancillary to the surgery. One could also argue that in the United States the vice-president takes an ancillary role to the president.
-
furnishing added support“an ancillary pump”synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliarysupportivefurnishing support or assistance
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
Vocabulary lists containing ancillary
Arnold Spirit, Jr., a young cartoonist who lives on the Spokane Indian reservation, decides to transfer to a school in which he will be the only American Indian student.
As you read Michael Specter's "The Mosquito Solution," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 12's Collection 5: Beowulf, Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, The Deep, The Mosquito Solution
page 2 of "450 words ranging in difficulty level for students in grades on through eight." Missing words: bizarro (replaced with bizarre), Podunk, albeit, squirrelly (replaced with squirrel), churros, also terra cotta (here) is "terra-cotta" on National Bee list, largesses becomes largesse, primadonna becomes prima donna, cordillera, kraken, wahine, umami, bas-relief becomes bas relief, Naugahyde, wunderkind, Sahel, bhangra