GRE Word List

APPEASE

pacify

The meaning of the word appease is pacify.

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qualmsa feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety
brochurepamphlet
stringenttight
bickerpetulant quarreling : altercation
granarya storehouse for threshed grain
pitha usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage
autopsyan examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease
proclivityan inclination or predisposition toward something
placateto soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease
minusculevery small