placate
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- v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- Beware that needling the protestors will be counter productive and it makes better sense to placate them.
- His motivation, of course, is not to replicate schools like mine but rather to placate social conservatives skeptical of the rest of his education plan, and, less cynically, to .
- To placate those associates while courting the American mainstream, he lurches between hatred and near conciliation.