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APPROPRIATING
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TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
26
pts
APPROPRIATING is a valid 13-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 26 in Super Big Boggle.
APPROPRIATING root APPROPRIATE
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verb
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transitiveTo take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
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transitiveTo set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
- to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
- UKtransitiveTo annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- archaictransitiveTo make suitable to; to suit.
adjective
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Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
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Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the checkout that my hairpiece looked like it was falling out of place.
- While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
- obsoleteSet apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
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Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.