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Associations of "Ill at ease" (30 Words)
| allay | Satisfy (thirst. Some stale figs partly allayed our hunger. |
| alleviate | Make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe. Measures to alleviate unemployment. |
| appease | Pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands. We give to charity because it appeases our guilt. |
| catching | The act of detecting something catching sight of something. Chicken pox is catching until scabs form on all the blisters. |
| communicable | (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection. Communicable ideas. |
| conciliate | Make (one thing) compatible with (another. All complaints about charges will be conciliated if possible. |
| contagious | Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another. It is a relatively new disease and very contagious. |
| disease | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. We are suffering from the British disease of self deprecation. |
| extenuate | Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of. His whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue. |
| flu | Influenza. She was in bed with flu. |
| illness | Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. He died after a long illness. |
| infectious | Caused by infection or capable of causing infection. A loud infectious laugh. |
| mitigate | Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful. Drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem. |
| mitigation | The action of lessening in severity or intensity. The identification and mitigation of pollution. |
| mollification | A state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered. His unsuccessful mollification of the mob. |
| mollify | Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of. She managed to mollify the angry customer. |
| pacify | Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of. The U N troops are working to pacify Bosnia. |
| palliate | Make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause. There is no way to excuse or palliate his dirty deed. |
| palliation | Easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause. |
| relieve | Relieve oneself of troubling information. Another signalman relieved him at 5 30. |
| sars | A respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal. |
| septic | Denoting a drainage system incorporating a septic tank. A septic environment. |
| sick | People who are sick. She sicked up all over the carpet. |
| slacken | Reduce or decrease in speed or intensity. Suddenly the line slackens and flutters in the wind. |
| smallpox | A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars. |
| soothe | Reduce pain or discomfort in (a part of the body. The medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation. |
| succor | Assistance in time of difficulty. |
| symptom | Anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X’s existence. Dental problems may be a symptom of other illness. |
| therapy | (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc. He is currently in therapy. |
| transmissible | (of a disease or trait) able to be passed on from one person or organism to another. The virus mutated into a form that was transmissible between humans. |