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 |
|---|---|
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |