GRE Word List
APPOSITE
highly pertinent or appropriate : apt
The meaning of the word apposite is highly pertinent or appropriate : apt.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| din | a loud continued noise |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| spate | freshet |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |