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: To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Seize
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to deliberately take hold of; to grab or captureto take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)to take possession of (by force, law etc.)to have a sudden and powerful effect uponto bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small lineto fasten, fixto lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ or )to have a seizureto bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
Example sentence: The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.