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 |
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indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
obese | having excessive body fat |
embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |