supplicant

one who comes to humbly ask or petition

antagonise

–verb (used with object)

1.

to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.

2.

to act in opposition to; oppose.

–verb (used without object)

3.

Rare . to act antagonistically.

Obfuscate

Verb

1. To make dark; overshadow
2. To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.

   Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.

3. (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but conceal its structure and intent.

   We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

Assuage

Verb

Assuage (third-person singular simple present assuages, present participle assuaging, simple past and past participle assuaged)

1. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
   • 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

     I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost

2. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
3. (intransitive) (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.