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appropriate

verbCommon GRE wordMore A words

to take something for one's own use, often without permission

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Appropriate in a sentence

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The general appropriated the villagers' supplies for his troops.

Synonyms
seizecommandeerexpropriate
Antonyms
returnrelinquishdonate

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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Appropriate (verb) means to take something for one's own use, often without permission
Here is appropriate used in an example sentence: "The general appropriated the villagers' supplies for his troops."
Common synonyms for appropriate include seize, commandeer, expropriate.
Antonyms of appropriate include return, relinquish, donate.
Appropriate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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