C. change hostility to friendliness
Placate is to apease, to make someone happy, as in ending a fight, you agree with them just to shut them up. Nice way to say kiss ass.
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Miserable is an adjective, and placate is a verb, so they are not antonyms.
To placate is to calm, pacify, or mollify.Example : "The airline gave out free drinks in an effort to placate angry travelers."Example : "In between, I placate her with more cake."(Sarah Miller in Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller.)
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The word that comes to mind is "scapegoat." An abuser will unjustly blame the victim (aka scapegoat)for anything. The victim will in turn try to placate the abuser, trying to smoothe things over. Since all this happens in isolation from other people, the scapegoat starts feeling separate from those around him/her. The dictionary definition is a)one that bears the blame for others, or b)one that is the object of irrational hostility.
If the answer is directed at the Book of Mormon, the answer is "no." The word "placate" does not appear in this book of scripture.
I hate giving free candy to children, but I will do so if it will placate that wailing brat of yours.
Placate means appease or pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich."
Annoy, irritate, enrage, anger.
quiet, satisfy, mollify, pacify
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