Apposite

By Deane Barker tags: definition

Definition: appropriate or well-put

This one comes from the root of “posit” which means “to assert.” This is also where we get “position” from, as a position is essentially an “assertion of place.”

The prefix is not the Greek “a” (which would mean “opposite”) but rather the Latin “ad,” which means “toward.”

Why I Looked It Up

From Life Lessons from Literature, when discussing Middlemarch:

The subtitle “A Study of Provincial Life” is particularly apposite, as Eliot describes in exacting detail the ambitions, interactions, vocations, manners and relationships of an array of different characters.

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