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 |
|---|---|
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |