Moderate rhymes with:
confederate, considerate, obdurate, accurate, barbiturate, commensurate, confederate, conglomerate, considerate, corporate, degenerate, deliberate, directorate, doctorate, electorate, emirate, everett, illiterate, inaccurate, inspectorate, intemperate, interoperate, inveterate, literate, obdurate, protectorate, reverberate, triumvirate
Moderate sounds like:
madrid, mattered, matured, maturity, meandered, mentored, meteorite, metered, metrodade, mithridate, moderated, monitored, moothart, motherhood, mutert, muttered