Brucker Bears 4-5: relevant

Friday, September 7, 2012

relevant

(adj) - If something is relevant, it is related to something that is being talked about at the time.

Word Family: related, relative
Synonyms: related, appropriate, fitting
Antonyms: irrelevant, inappropriate, unsuitable, random
Etymology: 1481 Latin, from re- meaning "again" + levare meaning "to lessen, lighten" (as in relieve)
Morphology: relieve, irrelevant, relevance
Example: Someone might wonder how a topic like baseball is relevant to a subject like math.

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Talented StudentSeptember 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM
Shelby says, something relevant to what were reading is food or art or clothing.
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