adjective · academic
appropriate
UK/əˈprəʊpriət/US/əˈproʊpriət/ap·PRO·pri·ate
Band 5-6speakingtask2
suitable or right for a particular situation or purpose
Examples
“It is not appropriate to use informal language in an academic essay.”
“The study adopted an appropriate method for measuring long-term trends.”
“We need to choose the appropriate scale for the graph.”
Band 8 sentence
“It would not be appropriate to publish those preliminary results before the data have been thoroughly checked.”
Collocations
- appropriate for
- appropriate to
Word family
appropriately adverbappropriateness noun
Common mistakes
appropriate with→appropriate for / appropriate to
He appropriated the idea→He adopted the idea / He used the idea
Say it for a higher band
5suitable→6fit→7+appropriate
Synonyms
suitable
Easily confused
suitable
“The candidate's qualifications are suitable for the position.”
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