conciliatory
intended to make angry or hostile people calm and more friendly; seeking to reduce conflict
Word origin: From Latin conciliare, to bring together or unite (concilium council).
Conciliatory in a sentence
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The prime minister's conciliatory speech was widely praised as a step toward ending the dispute.
His conciliatory remarks after the dispute helped restore trust between the two departments.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “conciliatory” well
Conciliatory describes an effort to soothe hostility and reduce conflict. It is the opposite stance to belligerent, a direct antonym worth pairing on the GRE.
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