GRE Word List
APPOSITE
highly pertinent or appropriate : apt
The meaning of the word apposite is highly pertinent or appropriate : apt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |