Placating rhymes with:
abdicating, adjudicating, advocating, allocating, authenticating, communicating, complicating, confiscating, dedicating, deprecating, domesticating, duplicating, educating, equivocating, eradicating, extricating, fabricating, iceskating, implicating, indicating, intoxicating, locating, lubricating, medicating, misallocating, pontificating, predicating, prognosticating, reallocating, reciprocating, replicating, self-deprecating, speedskating, suffocating, syndicating, truncating
Placating sounds like:
palestinian's, palestinians, palestinians', philistines, playstations, publication's, publications, publications', pulsating