All 7 Uses

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Three Cups of Tea
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The man flipped through a notebook that listed miscellaneous military appropriations.
Chpt 21 *

appropriations = money budgeted for a particular use
With Mary Bono, I found one of the people in Congress who was responsible for Afghan appropriations.
Chpt 23

appropriations = budgeting
Jerene's brother, Pastor Lane Doerring, gave a eulogy, in which he added an appropriate twist to Christa's favorite movie's most famous line.†
Chpt 4
None of the adjectives usually applied to mountain scenery is adequate here—indeed, the very word 'scenery' is comically inappropriate.†
Chpt 7 *

inappropriate = unsuitable (not fitting) for a particular situation

standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
There was also the problem of finding an appropriate escort.†
Chpt 13
Their entourage included police officers, army commanders, local politicians, and board members Jennifer Wilson and Julia Bergman, who'd spent months assembling a collection of culturally appropriate books to create a library for Korphe.†
Chpt 15
They stopped at a flower market where Mortenson gave the driver ten dollars' worth of rupees and asked him to select an appropriate funeral arrangement.†
Chpt 18

Definitions:

(1) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate)
suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
(2) (appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture)
to take without asking -- often without right
(3) (appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds)
to set aside for a particular use
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)