placate
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To make someone less angry or hostile by doing or saying something.
The airline offered vouchers to placate the stranded passengers.
Business verb
To make someone less angry or hostile, typically by making concessions.
A modest goodwill credit was enough to placate the aggrieved distributor.
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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