please
to give satisfaction or make someone willing
Root
- plac: please, soothe, settle into calm
Other words with the plac root
- complacent: self-satisfied and unaware of risk
- complaisant: eager to please or agree with others
- implacable: unable to be appeased
- placate: to calm someone down
- placatory: intended to soothe, calm, or appease
- placebo: inactive treatment that may still produce a perceived benefit
- placid: calm, peaceful, and undisturbed
- placidity: calmness or peaceful stillness
Please is the familiar plac hook: make someone pleased or willing.
The clear example pleased the students because it made the rule usable.