Palliate ( page 261 ).
Questions.
1. How do cloak and palliate agree in original meaning? How do they differ in the derived senses? 2. What is it to extenuate, and how does that word compare with palliate?
Examples.
Speak of me as I am; nothing ——
Nor aught set down in malice.
We would not dissemble nor —— [our transgressions] before the face of Almighty God, our heavenly Father.
I shall never attempt to —— my own foibles by exposing the error of another.