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 |
|---|---|
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |