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 |
|---|---|
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| trenchant | keen |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |