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 |
|---|---|
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |