To reappraise something is to look at it again and ask whether you should change it, or change what you think of it. You can reappraise a house’s price, a worker’s pay, a book you hated at sixteen, or a plan that is not working. It is the verb that matches reappraisal, and it sits in the same careful, official room. In daily talk people often say “look at it again” or “think about it again” instead. Though actually, the money use and the thinking use live side by side, and only the rest of the sentence tells you which one you are in. One trap sits inside the letters: this is not “praise again.” To appraise is to judge what something is worth, or what it is really like — a measuring look, not a kind word.

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