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The verb appraise has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value -- (place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional")
2. survey, appraise -- (consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting")

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2 senses of appraise

Sense 1
measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value -- (place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional")
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge -- (form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people")

Sense 2
survey, appraise -- (consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting")
=> analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas -- (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives")

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Coordinate Terms: 2 senses of appraise

Sense 1
measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value -- (place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional")
-> evaluate, pass judgment, judge -- (form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people")
=> rate, rank, range, order, grade, place -- (assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide")
=> stand -- (have or maintain a position or stand on an issue; "Where do you stand on the War?")
=> approve -- (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)
=> disapprove -- (consider bad or wrong)
=> choose -- (see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam")
=> prejudge -- (judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence)
=> measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value -- (place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional")
=> reappraise -- (appraise anew; "Homes in our town are reappraised every five years and taxes are increased accordingly")
=> reject -- (refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper")
=> accept -- (consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument")
=> think, believe, consider, conceive -- (judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior")
=> calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast -- (judge to be probable)
=> expect, anticipate -- (regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow")
=> impute, ascribe, assign, attribute -- (attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats")
=> assign, attribute -- (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class")
=> disapprove, reject -- (deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods")
=> declare, adjudge, hold -- (declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent")
=> review, critique -- (appraise critically; "She reviews books for the New York Times"; "Please critique this performance")
=> fail -- (judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students")
=> pass -- (accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak")
=> test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay -- (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe")

Sense 2
survey, appraise -- (consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting")
-> analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas -- (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives")
=> anatomize -- (analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior")
=> diagnose, name -- (determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis)
=> diagnose -- (subject to a medical analysis)
=> survey, appraise -- (consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting")
=> survey -- (make a survey of; for statistical purposes)
=> compare -- (examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie")
=> check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check into -- (examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine")
=> assay -- (analyze (chemical substances))
=> review, reexamine -- (look at again; examine again; "let's review your situation")
=> audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect -- (examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; "audit accounts and tax returns")
=> screen -- (examine methodically; "screen the suitcases")
=> trace, follow -- (follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress")
=> investigate, look into -- (investigate scientifically; "Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese")
=> sieve, sift -- (check and sort carefully; "sift the information")
=> view, consider, look at -- (look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem")