Mollify (V): Soothe Synonyms: Appease, calm, placate, pacify, assuage, conciliate, propitiate. Example: Being in an irreconcilable mood she told him “Do not try to mollify me”.
Emollient (N & Adj): Soothing or softening remedy. The winter creams and all that stuff fall in the category of emollients. The word can be broken as “E”, which means “out, thoroughly” and “mollis”, which means, “soften”, thus the meaning is to “soften out”.
Emolliate (V): Soften; Make effeminate. All these words can be linked up to the animals belonging to the phylum “Mollusca”; they are characterized by having soft bodies and hard shells and thus the meaning. Examples: Snails, Oysters.
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Emollient (N & Adj): Soothing or softening remedy. The winter creams and all that stuff fall in the category of emollients. The word can be broken as “E”, which means “out, thoroughly” and “mollis”, which means, “soften”, thus the meaning is to “soften out”.
Emolliate (V): Soften; Make effeminate. All these words can be linked up to the animals belonging to the phylum “Mollusca”; they are characterized by having soft bodies and hard shells and thus the meaning. Examples: Snails, Oysters.
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