Question

If you succeed in placating an angry colleague, you turn that person’s hostile attitude into one that is friendly or favorable. The noun is placation, the adjective either placative or placatory. A more placatory attitude to those you have offended may help you regain their friendship; when husband and wife, or lovers, quarrel, one of them finally makes a placative gesture if the war no longer fulfills his or her neurotic needs—one of them eventually will wake up some bright morning in a placatory mood.

Accepted Answer

Placate is built on the root plac- which derives from two related Latin verbs meaning, 1) to please, and 2) to appease, soothe, or pacify. Word Power Made Easy SESSION 23

知识	If you succeed in placating an angry colleague, you turn that person’s hostile attitude into one that is friendly or favorable. The noun is placation, the adjective either placative or placatory. A more placatory attitude to those you have offended may help you regain their friendship; when husband and wife, or lovers, quarrel, one of them finally makes a placative gesture if the war no longer fulfills his or her neurotic needs—one of them eventually will wake up some bright morning in a placatory mood.
拓展	Placate is built on the root plac- which derives from two related Latin verbs meaning, 1) to please, and 2) to appease, soothe, or pacify.
《》	if you please!
出处	Word Power Made Easy SESSION 23

Attitude Placatory Succeed Placating Angry Colleague Turn Person’s