propitiate
C2CEFR level
87/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To win or regain the favour of someone by doing something that pleases them.
The company offered concessions to propitiate its angry shareholders.
Law verb
To appease an aggrieved party by conceding something to regain goodwill.
A modest interim payment was offered to propitiate the claimant while the merits were argued.
Business verb
To win the goodwill of an offended or hostile party.
Management offered an early payment to propitiate the supplier threatening to walk away.
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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