placative

[pley-key-tiv, -kuh-, plak-ey-tiv, plak-uh-]

pla·ca·tive

[pley-key-tiv, -kuh-, plak-ey-tiv, plak-uh-]
adjective

Origin:
1930–35; placate1 + -ive
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Placative is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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plækətərɪ or (less commonly) placative (pləˈkeɪtərɪ, -trɪ, pləˈkeɪtɪv, ˈplækətɪv)
 
adj
placating or intended to placate
 
placative or (less commonly) placative
 
adj

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