It's the Word of the Day podcast for September 6th.
Today's word is mollify, spelled M-O-L-L-I-F-Y.
Mollify is a verb.
To mollify someone is to make them less angry.
Mollify can also mean to reduce in intensity.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Miami Herald.
The philanthropic move is likely meant to mollify angry residents who are protesting against the celebrity-filled spectacle being held in their historic backyard.
The word mollify is particularly well-suited
for referring to the action of soothing emotional distress or anger and softening hard feelings.
It comes from the Latin adjective mollice, meaning soft.
Mollies is also the root of the English adjective immoliant,
used to describe something such as hand lotions that softens or soothes, and the noun mollusk,
which refers to any one of a large group of animals, such as snails and clams,
that have a soft body without a backbone and that usually live in a shell.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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