prop

Usage

• expropriate

  If you expropriate something, you take it away for your own use although it does not belong to you; governments frequently expropriate private land to use for public purposes.

• apropos

  When something is apropos, it is fitting to the moment or occasion.

• appropriate

  If you appropriate something that does not belong to you, you take it for yourself without the right to do so.

• malapropism

  A malapropism is an unintentional and usually humorous mistake you make when you use a word that sounds similar to the word you actually intended to use but means something completely different.

• propriety

  Propriety is behaving in a socially acceptable and appropriate way.