✅ Morbid describes things that are gruesome and grisly. It also describes a mental state that is unwholesomely gloomy (a morbid scene; a morbid outlook).

✅ Macabre describes things that are gruesome, grim, or ghastly, especially things that are suggestive of death (a macabre poem).

✅ Macabre is a bit more elevated of a word than morbid (The horror film director was thrilled by the macabre setting of the catacombs).

We promise these macabre synonyms won’t be too scary!

✅ Accept means to reconcile yourself to something, adjust to something, or put up with it (I decided to accept that my roommate plays loud music; I can accept bluntness, but I won’t accept cruelty).

✅ Tolerate means to allow, endure, or put up with something (I won’t tolerate noise after 10pm).

✅ Accept and tolerate both mean to endure something that is imperfect or not desired without complaining.

✅ Accept emphasizes adjusting to something, whereas tolerate emphasizes that you don’t like what’s happening but won’t complain.

Write about something you’ve started to tolerate with the help of Grammar Coach.

✅ Cajole means to persuade someone to do something, often through flattery or by making promises (They cajoled the guard into letting them enter).

✅ Blandish means to coax or influence someone to do something through flattery (He tried to blandish his boss into letting him go home early by complimenting his tie).

✅ Blandish suggests a more subtle persuasion than cajole but is less commonly used.

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