GRE Word List
APPROPRIATE
especially suitable or compatible : fitting
The meaning of the word appropriate is especially suitable or compatible : fitting.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| fleck | streak |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |