APPOSE

PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-POHZ)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To place next to or side by side: to juxtapose.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin apponere (to put near), from ad- (near) + ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), which is also the source of after, off, awkward, post, and puny. Earliest documented use: 1593.
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AP POST - dispatch from the news agency

ATP-OSE - sugar with a high-energy phosphate bond

AM POSE - pretending to be irritable until you've had enough coffee