| 单词 | conciliate |
| 释义 | conciliate (once / 729 pages) v The verb conciliate means to placate, appease, or pacify. If you are eating at a restaurant and the waiter accidentally spills a drink on you, the manager may try to conciliate you by picking up the tab for your meal. You may be more familiar with the term conciliation ––it can mean the flowers you bring to conciliate your girlfriend after a fight, or a politician's conciliatory offer to fund a new playground to a community that's just lost its school. Conciliate comes from the Latin word conciliare, meaning "to unite." Conciliare in turn comes from the Latin word concilium, meaning "council." If you remember their common etymology, you can remember that, like council, conciliate is spelled with only one l. WORD FAMILYconciliate: conciliable, conciliated, conciliates, conciliating, conciliation, conciliative, conciliator, conciliatory+/conciliation: conciliations/conciliative: conciliatively/conciliator: conciliators/conciliatory: conciliatorily USAGE EXAMPLESRather than tolerate or conciliate with the dissidents, who represent a large fraction of Hong Kong’s youths, the regime is heavy-handedly cracking down on them. Washington Post(Nov 08, 2016) Adams made no attempt to conciliate his rivals. Wall Street Journal(Oct 28, 2016) In a nation seemingly addicted to argument as a blood sport, she conciliates. New York Times(Oct 10, 2016) 1v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of Syn|Hyper appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize make calm or still 2v come to terms Syn|Hypo|Hyper make up, patch up, reconcile, settle appease, propitiate make peace with make peaceend hostilities agree, concord, concur, hold be in accord; be in agreement 3v make (one thing) compatible with (another) Syn|Hyper accommodate, reconcile harmonise, harmonize bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously |
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