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EXPAND YOUR VERB POWER
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The correct answer is pamper.
Mollycoddle
A. talk disparagingly
B. draw another close to
C. pamper
D. keep warm and comfortable
The correct answer is (C) To pamper; to coddle.
Mollycoddle comes from 19th-century slang molly (an effeminate boy) + coddle (treat tenderly).
Examples of use:
- Don't mollycoddled them!
- Although he is an adult, his mother continues to mollycoddle him
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