germane
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- s relevant and appropriate
he asks questions that are germane and central to the issue
- So long as a teacher's observations are scholarly and germane to the subject, her freedom of expression in the classroom should not be curbed.
- The germane question is whether whistle blowers should be given protection from the vested interests.
- When you go beyond twenty slides in a presentation, you must pause and ask yourself if it is really germane to the topic.