Apt and Justified

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Apt adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.

Usage example: “gingerbread” is certainly an apt description for that house with all the ornate trim

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Justified and apt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Justified" instead an adjective "Apt".

Justified adjective - Being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong.

Usage example: the use of force to capture the armed fugitive was fully justified

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Apt and justified are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Apt" instead an adjective "Justified".

Shadows of the Apt: Every race in that world is a member of a hat (though to some degree this is justified, as their totem insect affects each race on a biological level).

Source: Planet of Hats

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