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How to pronounce “appropriate”
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Pronunciation guide for appropriate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of appropriate with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- 52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom
feelings and then act appropriately on those feelings
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
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How to pronounce appropriate
52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom

feelings and then act appropriately on those feelings
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A Deep Dive Into “appropriate”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
- [Adjective]
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- (of an action or thing) Morally good; positive.
- (of an action or thing) pleasant;
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