I'm reading the Isaac Asimov novel The Robots of Dawn and I just found the word multifarious. I assume it means many.
Meaning: many and of various types: "multifarious activities."
Similar: numerous, countless, innumerable.
I just came across the word palliated. It means to "make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause."
Used in a sentence: "Treatment works by palliating symptoms; pharmaceutical drugs palliate, they do not cure."
Similar: alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe.
I had never seen STERTOROUSLY before Asimov used it. Stertorous means (of breathing) noisy and labored.
Used in a sentence: "The breathing was becoming less stertorous"; "a stertorous sigh."
MORE: FARRAGO, a confused mixture. "A farrago of fact and myth about Abraham Lincoln."
Similar: clutter, muddle, mess, confusion.
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