Pacify/satisfy

1. ameliorate – a) to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory, improve, amend

2. defer – a) to yield respectfully in judgment or opinion (followed by the preposition to) i.e. I defer to my father in all matters; b) accede, submit, acquiesce, capitulate

3. placate – a) to appease or pacify, esp. by concessions or conciliatory gestures; b) conciliate, satisfy

4. slake – a) to allay (thirst, desire, wrath) by satisfying; b) to cool or refresh; c) to make less active, vigorous, intense; c) to satisfy, quench, gratify, relieve

5. appease – a) to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm or contentment, pacify, soothe; b) to pacify, allay, relieve, assuage; c) to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of a nation, group, person in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at expense of justice or other principles; d) calm, placate, conciliate, propitiate

6. mitigate – a) to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness or pain, moderate; b) to make less severe, to make milder or more gentle, mollify, appease; c) to soften or soothe, i.e. mitigating circumstances (смягчающие обстоятельства)

7. propitiate – a) to make favorably inclined, appease, conciliate; b) appease

8. assuage – a) to make milder or less severe, relieve, ease, mitigate; b) to appease, satisfy, allay, relieve; c) to sooth, calm or mollify; d) to alleviate, lessen

9. mollify – a) to soften in feeling or temper, as a person, appease, pacify; b) to mitigate or reduce, soften

10. satiate – a) to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary, surfeit; b) to satisfy to the full, sate; c) gorge, glut, stuff (i.e. as in the expression “stuffed to the gills”)

FORGIVE

1. absolve – a) to free from guilt or blame or their consequences; b) to set free or release, as from some duty obligation or responsibility; c) to grant pardon for; d) to exculpate, clear, acquit, liberate, exempt, excuse, forgive, exonerate

2. exonerate – a) to consider a person clear of blame or consequences for an act, (even when the act is admitted, or to justify the person for having done it); b) to clear, as of an accusation, free from guilt or blame; c) to vindicate, discharge, release, free

3. redress – a) the setting right of what is wrong; b) relief from wrong or injury; c) compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury; d) to remedy or relieve; e) restoration, atonement, reparation, restitution,

4. acquit – a) to release from a specific and usually formal accusation; b) to relieve from the charge of a crime, to declare not guilty; c) to release or discharge from an obligation; c) to exculpate

5. expiate – a) to atone for, to make amends or reparation for; b) to redeem oneself by admitting and paying for one’s crimes

6. vindicate – a) to clear, as from an accusation, imprecation, suspicion or the like; b) to uphold or justify by argument or evidence; c) to assert, maintain, defend, in spite of all opposition; d) to protect, avenge, exonerate, exculpate

7. exculpate – a) to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; b) to free from blame, vindicate; c) exonerate

8. palliate – a) to relieve or lessen without curing, mitigate, alleviate; c) to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, extenuate

POOR

1. destitute – a) without means of subsistence, lacking food, clothing or shelter; b) deprived of, devoid of, lacking; c) needy, poor, indigent, necessitous, penniless, impoverished, deficient

2. impecunious – a) having little or no money, penniless, poor; b) destitute, poverty-stricken, indigent

3. esurient – a) hungry, greedy

4. indigent – a) lacking food, clothing and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy, poor, impoverished; b) destitute, necessitous, penurious, distressed

5. penury – a) extreme poverty; destitution; b) scarcity, dearth, inadequacy, insufficiency, indigence, need, want

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