SAT vocabulary
Conciliate
to win over, pacify, or gain the goodwill of an estranged party
Example
"The union representative sought to conciliate the striking machinists by proposing binding arbitration."
Etymology
From Latin conciliatus, past participle of conciliare ('to bring together, unite, win over').
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