# session-19

### playing it down

* `disparaging`: he didn't accomplish a thing - he was just a victim of good fortune.

  > eg: They were disparaging Truman's achievement

### play it safe

* `equivocating`

  > eg: He was equivocating.

### enjoying the little things

* `titillate`: giving momentarily happiness (tickle)

  > eg: They titillate you.

### playing it way up

* `adulate`: showing someone ingratiating, almost servile attention, worship and flatter them fulsomely

  > eg: They adulate such celebrities

### accentuating the negative

* `proscribing`: forbidding

  > The doctor is proscribing harmful items in your diet

### accentuating the affirmative

* `obviate` (verb): remove (a need or difficulty)

  > eg: Your characteristic and temperament obviate such fears.

### playing it wrong

* `militate`: neurotic people unconsciously wish to fail (something which works against \[you])

  > eg: It militate against success

### playing it dirty

* `maligning`: slander

  > He's maligning everyone.

### giving the benefit of any doubt

* `condone`: forgive

  > eg: you condone them

### changing hostility

* `placate`: change hostility to friendliness

  > eg: You try to placate him

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### Helping Words

* `resentment`: bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.
* `polygamous`: having more than one mate.
* `infidelity`: the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner.
* `accentuate`: make more noticeable or prominent
* `fulsomely`: complementary or flattering to an an excessive degree
* `servile`: having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others
* `ingratiating`: get favour by flattering or pleasing
* `ravenous`: extremely hungry
* `gustatory` (adj): concerned with tasting or the sense of taste
* `apologists`: a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial
* `cushy`: (a job or situation) undemanding, easy, or secure
* `ballot`: voting system
* `tangible` (noun, adj): perceptible by touch. clear & definite; real
* `slander` (noun, verb): defame
* `vague`: of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning