GRE Unit 6

name

strikingly appropriate and relevant

The writer searched two dictionaries and a thesaurus before finding the perfectly apposite word he was looking for.

to inform

Nadine Cohodas's biography of the blues singer Dinah Washington keeps the reader apprised of the racism black America had to endure.

praise; approval

The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest approbation an America soldier can receive.

relevant

Apropos of nothing, the speaker declared that the purpose of life is to love.

great emotion or passion

The twentieth century American poet Wallace Stevens said, "It is the unknown that excited the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

extremely difficult; laborious