Meaning & use
apposite
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Highly appropriate or relevant to what is being said or done.
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Her apposite remark about timing captured exactly why the project had failed.
The professor chose an apposite example that made the abstract theory easy to grasp.
A note on using this word
Easily confused with "opposite," despite having a completely different meaning; think of it as related to "apt."
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