Today's Word "Apposite"
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apposite \AEH-peh-zit\ (adjective) - Strikingly appropriate, applicable, or fitting; well put.
"Albert thought it very apposite of his group to bombard the committee with water balloons in protest of their decision to sell water rights to outsiders."
Old French aposer from Latin apponere, apposui, appositum "place near, add, unite" from ad- "to" + ponere "to put, place" via a confusion of ponere with Late Latin pausare "halt, cease, pause." Appose belongs to a large family including suppose (Latin original "place beneath"), compose (Latin original "put together"), impose (Latin original "put into" cf. English "put out"), expose (Latin original "place outside"), oppose (Latin original "place against").
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