lenitive /LEN-uh-tiv/ - alleviating pain or harshness : soothing
It seems like it's around this time each year, for about a month, that whoever's turn it is in the rotation for providing Word of the Day columns stretches my vocabulary with more new words than I get from the feature during the rest of the year. I love new words.
Some friends are this way for each other. I often try to be, especially with truths that people have heard harshly all their lives. But I find that my best efforts to be a lenitive influence often end up being exacerbative (which apparently isn't a word, but ought to be), instead.
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