ASSUAGE is a classic SAT word that means to soothe, calm, and make less stressful. For example, would you purchase a stock on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Dhaka, Bangladesh? Many potential stock traders would worry about investing in an unfamiliar foreign country. However, according to SAT test writers, the Dhaka Stock Exchange is working hard to ASSUAGE or calm investor worries. Believe it or not, this is not an isolated example. It is in fact part of a large cluster of vocabulary in context questions in which successful and therefore THRIVING stock exchanges in unfamiliar foreign countries have special programs to ASSUAGE, MITIGATE, and NURTURE nervous foreign investors.