Word to the Wise: Propitiate

To "propitiate" (pro-PISH-ee-ate) – from the Latin for "favorable" – is to appease.

Example (as used by Helen Gibson in Time Europe): "Yet the Fairy Bridge [on the Isle of Man]… didn’t get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter ‘Hello, little people,’ to propitiate the fairies underneath."

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