;Posted on 04/16/2015 5:02:12 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Thursday, April 16, 2015-- palliate
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
palliate [pal-ee-eyt]
verb, transitive (used with object) palliated, palliating.
1. to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
2. to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.
Origin: 1540-50, from Late Latin palliāre to cover up, from Latin pallium a cloak, pallium
Related forms
palliation, noun
palliator, noun
nonpalliation, noun
unpalliated, adjective
palliative, adjective, as in palliative treatment or palliative care:
Palliative care (pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
I thought my friend would help relieve me of putting away all the leftovers, but some palliate the stuff I was going to have myself…
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Some pal. :)
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(Three pluses for content. One for the apple. I’m easy.)
Thank you! I’ll go easy on the bribes next time. Maybe... ;-)
To our enemies Obama does palliate and bow
To Republicans he sure does not kowtow
To Christians a rebuke
Iran gets the nuke
And always her own plane for his sow.
We’re rained out of work for the rest of the day...
Hillary is playing commoner
But I doubt she’s having fun-
She has to actually pretend
She knows how that is done
Riding in some luxury van
Like a tiny house on wheels
Isn’t helping her palliate
The facts of her sleazy deals
Talking up ordinary all day
Won’t add to Hillary’s grace-
As 1st lady, she told WH staff
Don’t you look me in the face...
Rush said she “dropped” in to a dinner....unscripted supposedly. Seems some folks were told to be there at a specific time. The president of the local Dem party on campus and a planned parenthood employee......who just happened to be there to be a photo op. RME She is so fake.
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Loved it! My antipathy for Hillary knows no bounds.
She missed the point with that stunt-it makes her look like a queen barging in on her subjects and demanding to be put at the head of the table and served food and drink, or else-like they did in medieval times-ordinary people don’t drop in on a dinner...
Thank you! I share your antipathy, and as an ordinary, independent woman, I’m insulted by her pretending to be one-she doesn’t have anything that was not provided by her husband with money and influence from his job and deals...
Oh, she could drop in at our local diner and find lots of folks having breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I am sure many are dems and would love to pose for pics. She could even get a private dining room to eat in in peace. Lots of regulars there. She would, also, encounter some shouted barbs and insults that would make great copy for some enterprising reporter, not that they exist anymore.
That is likely why she dropped in on a staged, private dinner-she can’t stand for anyone to criticize her-I’ve always said the only queenly behavior we haven’t see her do in public is adopt the use of the royal “we”...
She meant “diner,” not “dinner.”
She “spontaneously” stopped at a diner that was entirely staged with fake patrons.
Oh, well that sounds a bit more mannerly-but it was still a thoughtless stunt-I wonder if she rented the diner for a certain amount of time and pay for it in order to bring in her mascotas, or was the place open to the public as usual, and she just ignored the real customers?
Oops-should say and paid for it-but then isn’t Hillary known for stiffing “ordinary” people?
No, that’s Bill. (rim shot)
True, but Bill’s variety didn’t involve walking on checks or tips like Hillary did-he just made promises of gifts and jobs...
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