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 |
|---|---|
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| archaeology | the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |