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appeal
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appeal as in:  appealed for help

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    The police appealed for help identifying the shooter.
    appealed = asked
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    My parents said I couldn't go, but I appealed their decision and asked them to remember when they were in high school. They finally agreed to let me go on three conditions.
    appealed = requested that they reverse or overturn [their decision]
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    "And if there are, you know there's an appeal process."  (source)
    appeal = request (to overturn a decision)
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    His advice was to appeal to God and that He would answer our prayers.  (source)
    appeal = make a request
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    She was a judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.  (source)
    Appeals = requests or challenges (of a lower court's decision)
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    Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths.  (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks for help
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    But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting…  (source)
    appealed = called upon
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    PROCTOR, turning, appealing to Hale: Mr. Hale!  (source)
    appealing = asking
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    Prophetically rang the bells with solemn pealing; A prayer was then the ecstasy of bliss; A blessed and mysterious yearning Drew me to roam through meadows, woods, and skies; And, midst a thousand tear-drops burning, I felt a world within me rise That strain, oh, how it speaks youth's gleesome plays and feelings, Joys of spring-festivals long past; Remembrance holds me now, with childhood's fond appealings, Back from the fatal step, the last.†  (source)
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    After this appeal, two guards left camp and returned with a dog, reportedly the only one left in Naoetsu.  (source)
    appeal = request
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    The contrast of fragile veil and rank animal pelt, that's what appeals to the gentlemen.†  (source)
    appeals = requests or challenges
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    This was a great relief, and Buck caused even the weazened face of Perrault to twist itself into a grin one morning, when Francois forgot the moccasins and Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and refused to budge without them.  (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks for help
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    She appealed to her husband.  (source)
    appealed = asked
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appeal as in:  appeals to youthful tastes

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She has an appealing smile.
appealing = attractive
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    Her enthusiasm appeals to me.
    appeals = is attractive
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    The music has popular appeal.
    appeal = attractiveness
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    Part of its appeal is that it is a new approach.
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    None of the games appealed to him, the way he felt now.  (source)
    appealed = were attractive or desirable
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    Roy had other options, none particularly appealing.  (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
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    She'll return to her previously unappealing state soon.†  (source)
    unappealing = not attractive or desirable
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealing means not and reverses the meaning of appealing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.  (source)
    appeal = are attractive
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    Your mind appeals to me.  (source)
    appeals = is attractive
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    Her face had grown slightly puffy and her body had softened and slumped, but when she studied the family album she thought that her younger self seemed unappealingly puny by comparison—pinched and tight, almost starved-looking.†  (source)
    unappealingly = in a manner that is not attractive or desirable
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealingly means not and reverses the meaning of appealingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere.  (source)
    appealed = were attractive
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    The bars provided a way to climb down the riverbank. Not a very appealing way—the bars looked slippery, and the water below was so terribly fast.  (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
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    The food Mrs. Byrne makes is bland and unappealing—soft gray peas from a can, starchy boiled potatoes, watery stews—and there's never enough of it.†  (source)
    unappealing = not attractive or desirable
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    "He never comes to this," she says. "It's probably lost its appeal."  (source)
    appeal = attractiveness
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