mollify
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To soothe the anger or soften the hostility of a person or party.
The concession on subsidies was offered chiefly to mollify the smaller states threatening to walk out.
Law verb
To soothe the anger or resentment of an opposing party.
A carefully worded apology did much to mollify the aggrieved supplier at the mediation.
Business verb
To soothe or pacify a person who is angry or anxious.
He mollified the union with a phased rollout rather than an abrupt change.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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