GRE Word List
MALAPROPOS
in an inappropriate or inopportune way
The meaning of the word malapropos is in an inappropriate or inopportune way.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| intermediary | mediator |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |