apostate, n. deserter, pervert, renegade, turncoat, backslider,
runagate.

apparent, a. visible, perceptible; palpable, manifest, obvious,
evident; seeming, ostensible, specious.

apparition, n. specter, ghost, phantom, wraith, phantasm, illusion,
chimera, shade.

appeal, n. entreaty, application, petition; resort, recourse.
Associated Words: appellant, appellate, appellancy, appellatory,
appellee, appellor.

appealing, a. imploring, beseeching, entreating, supplicating.

appear, v. emerge; seem, look, loom, resemble.

appearance, n. emersion, emergence; phenomenon, phase, aspect,
presence, look, air, semblance.

appeasable, a. placable, pacifiable, forgiving. Antonyms:
unappeasable, implacable.

appease, v. conciliate, pacify, tranquilize, calm, propitiate,
assuage, mollify, reconcile, placate, mitigate.

appeasement, n. pacification, propitiation, conciliation,
reconciliation, placation.