The word found after unscrambling appeal means that earnest or urgent request, attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates, (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial, request for a sum of money, take a court case to a higher court for review, request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection, be attractive to, challenge (a decision), cite as an authority; resort to, .