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 |
|---|---|
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| laud | praise |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |