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Potentate 

[noun] 
MEANING: 

1. a powerful personality who rules others, an emperor or sovereign
2. a dominant person, leader of a group or venture

Probity 

[noun] 
MEANING: 

1. honesty, fidelity or integrity

Propitiate 

[transitive verb] 
MEANING: 

1. to reconcile, appease, pacify or mollify

Quiescent 

[adjective] 
MEANING: 

1. inactive, motionless or quiet
2. not showing symptoms or causing any trouble

Reprove

[noun,transitive verb] 
MEANING: 

1. (tr.v.) to admonish or criticize
2. (intr. v.) to rebuke or find flaws in