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 |
|---|---|
| catechism | oral instruction |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| niggle | trifle |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| expatriate | banish |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |