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Plac
- To please
- Comes from Latin – to please
PLAIS
- Peace, calm, soothe
- What do we mean by natatorium???
- Let’s quickly revise 5 idioms and phrases
A blue book
- A government report
- An official government report or register of statistics
Nine day’s wonder
- Short lived achievement
- To be a cause of great excitement or interest for a short time but then quickly forgotten
- Her marriage was a nine days’ wonder as she left her husband in the second week itself
Oily tongue
- One who flatters
- Excessively smooth spoken
To kick one’s heels
- To waste time
- Pass time idly while waiting for someone
- Wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely
- Be kept waiting
- She kicked her heels for hours at the passport office
Adam’s ale
- Ordinary water
- I don’t have a soft drink at the moment but I could offer you Adam’s ale
complaisant Adjective
- Ready to accept other people’s actions and opinions and to do what other people want
- Agreeable
- Willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest
Complacent- Adjective
- Fully satisfied
- Contented
- Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements
- Complacency- NOUN- a feeling of being satisfied with the way things are and not wanting to make them better
- Companies prefer employees who are always on their toes, against those who are complacent
- implacable
- That cannot be pleased Unable to be appeased or placated
- IM- NOT
- Unable to be stopped; relentless—– implacable typhoon
- He turned out to be an implacable enemy to the offenders
Placate- Verb
- To make somebody feel less angry about something
- Make someone less angry or hostile
- He attempted to placate his angry sister by offering her flowers
Placebo
- A substance that has no physical effects, given to patients who do not need medicine but think that they do or used when testing new drugs
- A useless but SOOTHING medication; something intended to soothe; gratify; conciliate
- A medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than for any physiological effect
Placid- Adjective
- Not easily excited or irritated
- Calm, peaceful, even tempered Unruffled
- Not easily upset or excited; calm and peaceful with little movement or activity; not perturbed easily
- Placidity- (Noun)- the quality of calmness; serenity
Natatorium
- A swimming pool especially one that is indoors
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