10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
noun to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
originBorrowed from Middle French palliation, from Latin palliare (“to cloak; to conceal”), from Latin pallium (“cloak”). By surface analysis, palliate + -ion.
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