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Bongbong Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Allude to and defuse
Hello there,
Please help me to understand the usage of these two words.
Allude to (V): to refer to something and somebody indirectly or briefly.
In the theater, the audience found it difficult to suppress his laughter when the announcers alluded to the actor passing gas loudly.
Defuse (V): To reduce a difficult or dangerous situation.
The meeting amongst the president and CEO was to defuse the current economic hardship.
When Black Friday shoppers started to get (or become?) unruly, the authority got involved and put the entire mall on a halt (or call a halt on the entire mall?)
THANK YOU!
Please help me to understand the usage of these two words.
Allude to (V): to refer to something and somebody indirectly or briefly.
In the theater, the audience found it difficult to suppress his laughter when the announcers alluded to the actor passing gas loudly.
Defuse (V): To reduce a difficult or dangerous situation.
The meeting amongst the president and CEO was to defuse the current economic hardship.
When Black Friday shoppers started to get (or become?) unruly, the authority got involved and put the entire mall on a halt (or call a halt on the entire mall?)
THANK YOU!
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"The meeting amongst the president and CEO was to defuse the current economic hardship. to defuse - to make it less tense, to calm, probably they talked about new solutions". "In the theater, the audience found it difficult to suppress his laughter when the announcers alluded to the actor passing gas loudly".
- "The meeting amongst the president and CEO was to defuse the current economic hardship.
- to defuse - to make it less tense, to calm, probably they talked about new solutions".
- "In the theater, the audience found it difficult to suppress his laughter when the announcers alluded to the actor passing gas loudly".
- alluded -made reference to that actor, drew attention to him, mentioned
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"The meeting amongst the president and CEO was to defuse the current economic hardship.
to defuse- to make it less tense, to calm, probably they talked about new solutions".
"In the theater, the audience found it difficult to suppress his laughter when the announcers alluded to the actor passing gas loudly".
to defuse- to make it less tense, to calm, probably they talked about new solutions".
"In the theater, the audience found it difficult to suppress his laughter when the announcers alluded to the actor passing gas loudly".
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Firstly, thanks for your repoinse, Akka36.
However, I didn't ask what those two words mean in these sentences. Actually, what I asked was I wanted to know if I use these two words correctly in the sentence I made up myself.
For third examples, the reason that I had parenthesis was because I was not positive how to construct the sentence correctly.
However, I didn't ask what those two words mean in these sentences. Actually, what I asked was I wanted to know if I use these two words correctly in the sentence I made up myself.
For third examples, the reason that I had parenthesis was because I was not positive how to construct the sentence correctly.
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