GRE Word List
APROPOS
being both relevant and opportune
The meaning of the word apropos is being both relevant and opportune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| deify | to make a god of |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| catcall | a loud or raucous cry made especially to express disapproval (as at a sports event) |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |