Difference between Appropriate and Conquer

What is the difference between Appropriate and Conquer?

Appropriate as a verb is to make suitable; to suit. -- william paley. while Conquer as a verb is to defeat in combat; to subjugate

Appropriate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, "let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit." To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;—with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.

Example sentence: The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Conquer

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to defeat in combat; to subjugate

Example sentence: Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

We hope you now know whether to use Appropriate or Conquer in your sentence.

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