SAT vocabulary
Mitigate
to make less severe, serious, or painful.
Example
"Emergency funds were released to mitigate the effects of the natural disaster."
Etymology
From Latin 'mitigare' meaning 'to soften, mollify, soothe', from 'mitis' (soft).
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