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#2: Palliative

Definition:

: something that eases (symptoms) without curing the underlying disease

Seen & Heard:

"In Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov: 'I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.'" — Johnny Bliss

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