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• s  moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

• alleviative
• alleviatory
• lenitive
• mitigative
• palliative

Quotes

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• Gideon Gono in BBC News
  Asked whether the payment would affect the prospect of expulsion from the IMF, Dr Gono said: "We are a guilty party from a technical point of view. All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury...