Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Word of the Week #7

1. palliative
2. Spartan Daily opinion article, "Japan: A nuclear warning in the making" by Salman Haqqi
3. "Celebrity gossip is a powerful palliative for trouble times, and most of us know about as much as the science of nuclear reactions as we do about the inner working of the economy."
4. adj; serving to palliate (palliate; to relieve or lessen without curing)
5. Sometimes doctors will give terminal patients morphine as a palliative treatment.

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