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 |
|---|---|
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| gnarl | snarl |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |