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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WordMeaning
accordto grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned
refractoryresisting control or authority : stubborn
interregnumthe time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes
abstinencethe practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable
indulgeto yield to the desire of : humor
fancifulmarked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
sacrosanctmost sacred or holy : inviolable
clapto strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise
bestialof or relating to beasts
sordidmarked by baseness or grossness : vile