Apposite By Deane Barker • February 24, 2024 • 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.