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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duration | continuance in time |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |