Entry: apposite (adj.)
Definition: Well put or applied; appropriate, suitable (to).
Other: Here
is a good example of where this blog is useful. Truthfully, I’d always
thought apposite meant something somewhat opposite of its actual
definition.
Can also be: Of persons: Ready with appropriate remarks, apt. Obs.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 33
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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