[Vocabulario esencial Inglés] Appreciate, appropriate and arable

Appreciate [uh PREE shee AYT]

1. To think well of
2. To understand and enjoy
3. esteem
4. To recognize and be thankful for
5. To estimate teh quality or value of (especially favorably) 
6. To be sensitively aware of
7. To increase the price of value of 

• We all appreciate how well mannered Shewana is.
• Many of her students appreciate the educational experience Mrs. Sheridan provides in her applied physics class

Appropriate [uh PROH pree AYT forv., uh PROH pree it for adj]

1. To take for one´s exclusive use
2. to take without permissionor improperly
3. To set aside for a certain use or particular person
4. Adj. right for the purpose
5. Adj. suitable
6. Adj. fit
7. Adj. proper 

• The Duchess have been known to appropriate the entire seating area of a town´s only restaurant when she desires to have tea

• Jane´s mother overruled Jane´s attempt to appropriate  her neighbor´s lawn chair
• A bathing suit is appropriate for the swimming pool but not at all appropriate  for the igloo

Arable [AR i bl]

1. Appropriate for plowing and, therefore, for growing crops

• A farm is only as useful as its arable land
• Thomas bought the field  on the basis of its arability

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