Conciliatory vs Placated - What's the difference?
conciliatory | placated |
willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
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(placate)
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
As an adjective conciliatory
is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.As a verb placated is
(placate).conciliatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.