GRE Word List
MALAPROPOS
in an inappropriate or inopportune way
The meaning of the word malapropos is in an inappropriate or inopportune way.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |