GRE Word List
APROPOS
being both relevant and opportune
The meaning of the word apropos is being both relevant and opportune.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nurture | training |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
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| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| ploy | escapade |
| forebears | ancestor |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| warranted | sanction |