Speaking and Writing
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Anchor word: **tone down** — To make language less strong, blunt, or negative. Everything in «Speaking and Writing: Toning Language Down and Writing a Report» links back to terms like this. Focus on definition tasks, gap-fills, and word use. Practise turning each term into your own example.
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Which term matches this description: To make language less strong, blunt, or negative.
- Toning language down
- report
- tone down
- connotation
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