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opportune
favorable, suitable
He had decided to wait for the opportune moment to ask his penurious boss for a raise; years later he was still waiting.
Related English words: inopportune,opportunism (the policy of doing what is expedient regardless of its morality), opportunist, opportunistic, opportunity )
Latin root words: opportunus, opportuna, opportunum - fit, suitable; opportunitas, opportunitatis, f. - fitness, suitableness
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