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Appease
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(v.) to pacify or placate someone by acceding to their demands
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Appease
(v.) to pacify or placate someone by acceding to their demands
Blasé
adj.) unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.
Coddling
(N.) treat in an indulgent or overprotective way.
Derision
(n.) contemptuous ridicule or mockery
Execrable
(adj.) extremely bad or unpleasant
Foist
(v.) impose an unwelcome or unnecessary thing or person on or into a situation
Genteel
(adj.) polite, refined or respectable
Heresy
(n.) opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted
Imperil
(v.) put at risk of being harmed, injured and destroyed
Jocular
(adj.) fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful
Lackadaisicallacking enthusiasm and determinationMeretricious(adj.) apparently attractive but having no real value or integrityNeophyte(n.) a person who is new to a subject, skill, or beliefOnus(n.) one's duty or responsibilityPandemonium(n.) wild and noisy disorder and confusion
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