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101palliation — n 1. extenuation, minimizing, minimization, playing down; justification, vindication, exculpation, exoneration; excuse, rationalization, apology; whitewash, cover up, varnish, gloss, veneer; sugar coating, candy coating; softening, lightening,… …
102redress — n 1. amends, reparation, atonement, restitution, restoration, correction, repair; requital, quittance, retribution, satisfaction; compensation, recompense, payment, remuneration, indemnification. 2. improvement, betterment, amelioration,… …
103reduction — n 1. decrease, decreasing, loss, lessening, decline, cutback, rollback, decrement, decre scence, depression; abbreviation, diminution, subtraction, subduction, shortening, condensing, condensation, compressing, compression, contracting,… …
104relaxation — n 1. rest, repose, taking it easy, leisure, ease; leisure time, free time, spare time, It. dolce far niente; break, recess, rest time, time out, intermission, breather, time to catch one s breath, breathing time or spell; vacation, holiday, time… …
105relief — n 1. alleviation, mitigation, abatement, assuagement, palliation; ease, easement, comfort, solace, consolation, calming; softening, mollification, slackening, loosening, relaxation. 2. deliverance, rescue, release, freeing, liberation,… …
106remission — n 1. forwarding, transmission, transmittal, transmitting, sending, dispatch, dispatching, remitting; payment, paying, discharge, discharging; remunerating, reimbursement, reimbursing, compensation, settlement, settling, paying off or up,… …
107reprieve — v 1. respite, remit, stay, grant a stay of execution, let off, Inf. let off the hook; continue, grant an extension, Finance. extend, Commerce. indulge; postpone, defer, prorogue, adjourn, suspend, intermit, lay over, put off, stave off, shelve,… …
108respite — n 1. interval, hiatus, intermission, break, interruption; pause, lull, lapse, interregnum; relief, breath, breather, breathing spell, rest, repose, relaxa tion, recess, inactivity, Archaic. bever; alleviation, assuagement, mitigation, palliation; …
109satisfaction — n 1. fulfillment, gratification, appeasing, assuaging, assuagement, placating. 2. content, contentment, pleasure, enjoyment, joy, delight, happiness, comfort. 3. acceptance, assurance, belief, trust. 4. reparation, compensation, indemnity,… …
110assuage — /əˈsweɪdʒ / (say uh swayj) verb (t) (assuaged, assuaging) 1. to make milder or less severe; mitigate; ease: to assuage grief. 2. to appease; satisfy: to assuage appetite; to assuage thirst; to assuage a craving. 3. to mollify; pacify: to assuage… …
