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SAT vocab 5
Mrs.Hahn Reading and Writing Strategies
Term | Definition |
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allay | to put fear, doubt, suspicion, and anger. |
alleviate | to make easier to endure; lessen and mitigate. |
ameliorate | to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory and improve. |
appease | to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment pacify soothe. |
assuage | to make milder or less severe; relieve ease mitigate. |
concilliate | to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate win over. |
mediate | to bring about an agreement, accord, truce, peace, as an intermediary between parties by compromise. |
mitigate | to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. |
mollify | to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease. |
pacify | to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity, quiet; calm |
placate | to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gesture. |
quell | to quiet or allay emotions, anxieties. |