GRE Word List
OPPORTUNE
suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence
The meaning of the word opportune is suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| 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 |