PALLIATION Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

palliation

noun

Definition of palliation

as in relief

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Relevance

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as in extenuation

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Noun

American consumers have been struggling with soaring beef prices for over two years now, but the elevated cost of livestock has been a relief for those ranchers, who feel they’re finally being paid fairly for their work.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
When Allie and Owen decide to bump their rumpy-pumpy to next year, in order to get to know each other better, there is a relief in their compliance, like exhausted toddlers who have stopped fighting bedtime.

— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of relief

Noun

Over the last four years, the Clark County Coroner’s Office, with the assistance of police and the FBI, has leveraged several types of technology trying to crack the cold case.

— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Residents with storm damage are being asked to call 311 to request cleanup assistance and help officials document the extent of the damage.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of assistance

Noun

Like an act of poetic atonement, America sent the great-great-great-great-grandson of a slave back, as a diplomat, to the country whence his ancestor had been kidnapped.

— Anne Haley, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
For starters, there is one urgent mission the pope must take on the road to atonement.

— Laura Washington, Mercury News, 9 June 2026

Definition of atonement

Noun

Others are just as deliberate about avoiding the front lines, gravitating toward technical or support specialties where the likelihood of direct combat is lower, but translating those skills to a civilian job may be smoother.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Jiang’s era saw China’s economy charge ahead and open up to the world, culminating with the country joining the World Trade Organization – with US support – in 2001.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of support

Noun

After the diaristic rush of her last record, Daughter from Hell finds Abrams at the hardest—and most rewarding—part of confession and self-actualization.

— Vogue, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026
At the center of it all is an FBI agent’s handwritten scrawl, detailing an alleged murder confession by a man who is missing and widely believed to have been murdered.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of confession

Noun

Besides the conspiracy charge, Oseguera Cervantes also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking conspiracy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Besides the conspiracy charge, Antonio Oseguera Cervantes also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking conspiracy.

— CBS News, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of furtherance

Noun

Your wife must love that poem and the acknowledgment of the disparity between how men are just, like, acknowledged and applauded for just being a father out in public with their kids and the way women are just expected to be that way.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
That inconsistency deserves thoughtful examination and acknowledgment of the impact of that inconsistency has on child victims.

— Keith Wortz, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of acknowledgment

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