germane

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The Word of the Day for June 30 is: 

germane   \jer-MAYN\   adjective
     : being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting

Example sentence:
     The matter of your sister's curfew is not germane to our current 
discussion, which is about your curfew.

Did you know?
     "Wert thou a Leopard, thou wert Germane to the Lion." So wrote Shakespeare 
in Timon of Athens (circa 1607), using an old (and now obsolete) sense of 
"germane" meaning "closely akin." "Germane" derives from the Latin word 
"germen," meaning "bud" or "sprout," which is also at the root of our verb 
"germinate," meaning "to sprout" or "begin to develop." An early sense of 
"germane" referred specifically to children of the same parents, who were 
perhaps seen as being like buds on a single tree.