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appreciative
  • s  feeling or expressive of gratitude
    was appreciative of his efforts
    an appreciative word
  • s  having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion
    appreciative of a beautiful landscape
    an appreciative laugh from the audience
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apprehended
  • v  get the meaning of something
  • v  take into custody
  • v  anticipate with dread or anxiety
  • s  fully understood or grasped
    these apprehended truths
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apprehensive
  • s  quick to understand
    a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • s  mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
    apprehensive about her job
    felt apprehensive about the consequences
  • s  in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
    apprehensive for one's life
    apprehensive of danger
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apprenticed
  • v  be or work as an apprentice
    She apprenticed with the great master
  • s  bound by contract
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appressed
  • s  pressed close to or lying flat against something
    igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"-L.V.Pirsson
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approachable
  • s  capable of being read with comprehension
    the tales seem more approachable than his more difficult novels
  • a  easy to meet or converse or do business with
    a friendly approachable person
  • s  easily approached
    a site approachable from a branch of the Niger
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approaching
  • n  the event of one object coming closer to another
  • n  the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
  • n  the act of drawing spatially closer to something
  • v  move towards
    We were approaching our destination
  • v  come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
  • v  begin to deal with
  • v  come near in time
    Winter is approaching
    approaching old age
  • v  make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
  • s  of the relatively near future
    the approaching election
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approbative
  • s  expressing or manifesting praise or approval
    approbative criticism
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appropriable
  • s  that can be appropriated
    appropriable funds
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appropriate
  • v  give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
  • v  take possession of by force, as after an invasion
  • a  suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
    a book not appropriate for children
    a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity
    it seems that an apology is appropriate
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