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  • 81rocking — Synonyms and related words: appeasing, calming, careening, cradling, dangling, dreamy, drowsy, gentling, hushing, lulling, lurching, mollifying, pacifying, pitching, quietening, reeling, restful, rolling, soothful, soothing, stilling, swaying,… …

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  • 82softening — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, allowance, altering, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive …

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  • 83soothing — Synonyms and related words: United Nations troops, abatement, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, assuasive, balmy, balsamic …

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  • 84subduing — Synonyms and related words: Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, ascendancy, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beating, benumbing, blunting, cathartic,… …

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  • 85tranquilizing — Synonyms and related words: analgesic, anodyne, appeasing, calmant, calmative, calming, cradling, depressant, dreamy, drowsy, gentling, hushing, hypnotic, lulling, mollifying, narcotic, pacifying, paregoric, quietening, restful, rocking, sedative …

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  • 86inflammatory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. incendiary, instigative (see cause). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. incendiary, provocative, fiery, instigative, rabble rousing; see also passionate 2 , rebellious 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …

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  • 87kind — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sort, species, class, type, ilk, breed, character, nature. adj. kindly, kindhearted; gentle, tender, sympathetic, mild, friendly, obliging, benign, solicitous, lenient; helpful. See benevolence,… …

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  • 88mild — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. gentle, easy, bland, soft, harmless; lenient, tolerant, merciful, humane, generous, forbearing; weak, neutral; placid, tranquil, temperate, moderate; comfortable, clement; meek, submissive,… …

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  • 89pacification — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Making peace Nouns 1. pacification, conciliation; reconciliation, reconcilement; propitiation, appeasement, mollification, mediation; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment, compromise; …

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  • 90soothing — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. calming, peaceful, comforting; see restful . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. calming, comforting, quieting, easing, mollifying, appeasing, pacifying, tranquilizing, relaxing, softening, settling, palliative, relieving …

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