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30 Cards in this Set
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Allay
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To lessen fear. To calm. To relieve pain.
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Alleviate
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To lessen pain or tension.
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Ameliorate
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to make better, to lessen pain difficulty or tension
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Appease
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to make tranquil or quiet, especially by giving into demands. To pacify.
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Assuage
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Pacify, quiet, relieve,
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Conciliate
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To win someone over. to make compatible : RECONCILE
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Mediate
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acting through an intervening agency. To act as a go-between
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Mitigate
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to make or become less severe. To lessen pain or damage
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Mollify
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To pacify. Soothe, to appease
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Pacify
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To calm, make peaceful. Restore to a tranquil state.
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Placate
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to make calm. To soothe.
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Quell
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To pacify. Subdue. To quiet down.
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Rescind
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Remove, Take back, Cancel.
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Bridle
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the headgear with which a horse is governed. RESTRAINT
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Gerrymander
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to divide (an area) into political units
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Impede
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to interfere with or slow the progress of, HINDER
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Joust
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to fight on horseback
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Neonate
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a newborn child
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Sonneteer
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Composer of sonnets
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Aggravate
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to make heavy : BURDEN b : INCREASE
2 : to make worse, more serious, or more severe |
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Lampoon
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a harsh satire usually directed against an individual
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Deride
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to laugh at contemptuously synonym RIDICULE
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Divulge
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to make known synonym see REVEAL
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Indulge
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synonyms INDULGE, PAMPER, HUMOR, SPOIL, BABY, MOLLYCODDLE. to take unrestrained pleasure in : GRATIFY
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Usurp
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to take the place of by or as if by force
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Implore
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to call or pray for earnestly : ENTREAT synonym see BEG
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Beseech
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to request earnestly : IMPLORE synonym see BEG
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Heed
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to give consideration or attention to : MIND
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Aggrandize
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to make great or greater
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Distend
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EXPAND
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