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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WordMeaning
hiatusa break in or as if in a material object : gap
promontorya high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water
nethersituated down or below : lower
renditionthe act or result of rendering something: such as
auspiciousshowing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious
mammalany 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
malaisean indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness
effusionan act of effusing
intermediarymediator
maculatedmarked with spots : blotched