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91commutation — n 1. exchange, substitution, switch, surrogation, subrogation; interchange, counterchange, shuffling, transposition; bartering, trading, buying and selling, traffic; reciprocation, retaliation, recompense, compensation, indemnification, indemnity …
92consolation — n 1. comfort, pity, sympathy, compassion, commiseration, condolence, solace. 2. relief, easing, easement, soothing; softening, cushioning, mollification, lightening; smoothing, calming; mitigation, abatement, remission; reduction, diminution,… …
93decrease — v 1. diminish, lessen, reduce, lower, abate, bate; contract, shrink, constrict, narrow; cut, pare, prune, truncate, crop, lop, dock, clip; condense, cut down, compress, shorten, abridge, scale down, boil down; abbreviate, curtail, cut short. 2.… …
94diminution — n 1. reduction, cutback, lessening, diminishing, decrement, abatement, decrease, retrenchment; contraction, shrinking, shrinkage, constriction, constricting, narrowing; condensation, compression, shortening, abridgment, abbreviation, curtailment …
95inspiration — n 1. stimulus, fillip, stimulation, arousal, incentive, provocation; revelation. Muse, afflatus; influence, encouragement, exhortation, prompting, goad, spur; whet, kindling, inflaming, igniting, Inf. sparking; incitement, instigation, rousing,… …
96letup — n 1. abatement, reduction, lessening, slackening, moderation, tempering; decrease, fall off, diminution, remission; retardation, retarding, slowing down; alleviation, mitigation, assuagement, relief, palliation, mollification, softening, easing… …
97mitigation — n alleviation, assuagement, palliation, appeasement; soothing, relief, easing, easement; softening, cushioning, mollification, lightening; smoothing over, calming, composing, tranquilizing, sedation, lulling; abatement, remission, reduction,… …
98moderation — n 1. temperance, temperateness, moderateness, avoidance of extremes; restraint, self restraint, self control; refrainment, forbearance, desis tance; abstention, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, continence. 2. happy medium, golden mean, Latin, aurea …
99mollification — n 1. softening, softness, mellowing, relaxing, relaxation, loosening, loosening up, easing up; meekening, subdual, taming; pacification, appeasement, dulcification, tranquilization, composing. 2. mitigation, abatement, weakening, alleviation,… …
100pacification — n 1. tranquilization, quieting, calming, lulling, soothing, comforting, consoling, solacing; assuagement, allaying, alleviation, palliation, relieving; mitigation, abatement, remission, relief; reduction, lessening, diminution, moderation,… …
