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Exercise: the 90's - the shape of the future
 
Tony Thorne 1990's  
Do you know the meaning of the following? Try this exercise and check your answers afterwards:
1: Tony uses the word 'emphasis' to mean...
 'something definite and clear'
'the stress given to a word to make its meaning clear'
'special importance'
  2: The term 'euphemism' stands for...
       a straightforward expression referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing  
an indirect expression referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing
an actor's or singer's stage name that is different from their real name
  3: If you make an employee redundant, you...
       sack, or fire them - in other words, you dismiss them from their job  
ask them to do a different job in your company
tell them they have to work harder if they want to keep their job
  4: If a new expression 'enters a language', then...       it becomes part of the language and people commonly use it  
it has been artificially introduced to the language
it definitely comes from another language
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