What's the difference between irate and placate?

Irate


Definition:

  • (a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
  • (2) A retired man became irate as he detailed why he couldn’t stand her: her handling of the attack against the US consulate in Benghazi , her email scandal , her cosy ties to Wall Street.
  • (3) The station nearest the Itaquerão stadium that will host the World Cup's opening match on 12 June was damaged by irate commuters who kicked down the metal barriers at two entrances.
  • (4) With European taxpayers already irate that Greece will need yet more funds to keep afloat, the €130bn financial support load had previously been seen as a red line across which no EU government was willing to step.
  • (5) While the Andersons appeared to be coming around to a brokered surrender, Fry became increasingly irate, refusing to quiet down when the other occupiers said they couldn’t hear Fiore and Seim on the other end of the call.
  • (6) At his afternoon event, all is ambivalence: he's received as a hero, but then spends a good deal of his allotted hour taking questions – and mini-speeches – from irate members of the audience.
  • (7) "You can't transform sports without targets," he said, qualifying this by adding that South Africa would not be like Kenya and send swimmers to the Olympics to "drown in the pool" – provoking a Twitter backlash from irate Kenyans under #SomeoneTellSouthAfrica .
  • (8) Irate trade unionists took over Athens' ancient landmark as fury over an unprecedented package of austerity measures, agreed in return for a multibillion euro aid package from eurozone nations and the IMF, intensified.
  • (9) Tempers have flared elsewhere across the country as irate voters have disrupted public meetings held by Democratic members of Congress.
  • (10) Irecently read a post on a Swedish parenting website from an irate mother complaining that, when she took her young son to see a children's film, an ad was shown featuring a gay couple telling each other: "I love you."
  • (11) Increased irAT levels heralded rejection of the pancreatic allograft by 4 to 30 days (median 20 days) in 13 of the 16 rejecting animals (80%).
  • (12) Both acylation and deacylation are rate-determining for these substrates, while only deacylation irate-determining for methyl-N-acetyl-L-phenylalanylglycinate.
  • (13) An irate Murdoch began inundating Wolff with increasingly urgent messages on his voicemail, saying he had read four of the 17 chapters and had "grave concerns about the facts".
  • (14) My abiding memory of him will be him being taken to task by two irate locals about the state of the town centre, and David winning them over."
  • (15) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
  • (16) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
  • (17) No advantage was seen in the determination of urinary IRI when compared to determination of urinary irAT.
  • (18) This decline was seen after the increase in serum irAT.
  • (19) The article also offers suggestions on dealing with the irate or frightened parent.
  • (20) Graft pancreatitis and allograft rejection were both accompanied by increased serum levels of immunoreactive anionic trypsin (irAT) in a porcine pancreatic allograft transplantation model.

Placate


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
  • (v. t.) To appease; to pacify; to concilate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His speech at the United Nations has been seen as a move to placate growing discontents in Palestinian society.
  • (2) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
  • (3) BT's £12.5bn EE takeover gets green light Read more The attempt to placate frustrated customers resulted in BT creating 1,000 jobs at UK call centres last year ; it plans double that number by April 2017.
  • (4) In the shorter term, however, the people who had to be placated were the international debt markets.
  • (5) David Cameron's announcement at the weekend to rush through the next stage of Help to Buy was also aimed at placating the middle classes, despite the risk of creating another housing bubble.
  • (6) Trinity Mirror attempted to placate investors in April with a new pay deal for Bailey that reduced her remuneration by about £500,000, but that failed to satisfy some major shareholders.
  • (7) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
  • (8) As it has edged ever closer to power, the party has launched a concerted campaign to reassure and placate creditors of its policies and intent.
  • (9) The IEA said the final budget could spiral further because of several factors, including: changing routes and carrying out more tunnelling to placate opposition groups; compensation for towns and cities bypassed by the line; and regeneration grants awarded along the line.
  • (10) However, costs such as extra tunnelling to placate opponents in London and the Chilterns have already meant extra money has been factored in.
  • (11) For the three million Greeks now facing poverty, placating creditors means much less than erasing the painful conditions attached to its bailouts.
  • (12) Europe's 17 single currency governments have agreed to deliver €500bn (£418bn) in bailout funds in the hope of erecting a firewall strong enough to contain the sovereign debt crisis, placate the markets and encourage non-eurozone International Monetary Fund (IMF) members to commit a similar sum to emergency reserves.
  • (13) The youths drifted away, peaceful but not placated.
  • (14) The strategy for the NSA and its Washington defenders for managing these changes is now clear: advocate their own largely meaningless reform to placate this growing sentiment while doing nothing to actually rein in the NSA's power.
  • (15) Nobody tells you how to placate the angry parents who think they’ve encountered the world’s frailest child-snatcher.
  • (16) He can't placate these protests as easily as he could when the JMP [the opposition coaliation] were leading them."
  • (17) If there is confusion on this basic point, no foreign government will trust that when a president purports to speak for our country he actually does.” Blinken attempted to placate several angry representatives who demanded Congress have more authority in the negotiations, saying the administration has “more than 200 meetings, calls, [and] briefings” with elected officials regarding the talks.
  • (18) King said a one-off increase, to placate critics in the financial markets, would be a "futile gesture"; but Sentance warned that the Bank would find itself "playing catch-up" if it failed to tighten policy rapidly.
  • (19) Which is why every family should have at least one … Facebook Twitter Pinterest Placator or Curmudgeon?
  • (20) In-tray Cutting the £163bn deficit and the debt mountain without hurting the economic recovery, the poor or British enterprise; sorting out bank regulation – both the rules and the structure; placating the City, which does not like his plan to abolish the Financial Services Authority.