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 |
|---|---|
| frigid | intensely cold |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |