Euphemisms study guide Euphemisms Study Guide Euphemisms Practice Exercises Practice Exercise Rewrite the following sentences replacing the italicized euphemism with more direct language Brie y explain why you think the euphemism was used Because of budge
Euphemisms Study Guide Euphemisms Practice Exercises Practice Exercise Rewrite the following sentences replacing the italicized euphemism with more direct language Brie y explain why you think the euphemism was used Because of budget cuts at the company my mother's job was terminated without prejudice Sadly the neighborhood where we used to live is now said to be in transition To her great embarrassment Eileen's mother called her pleasingly plump Moe's Pre-Owned Vehicles was the newest business in town and apparently it was extremely successful in these hard ?nancial times Every Tuesday night we put out our recycling bins for the sanitation engineers to pick up on Wednesday mornings The general explained that many civilian casualties resulted during the platoon's e ?orts toneutralize the target Mary Lou was expecting again which pleased her son and her parents enormously During this summer's heat wave we suddenly had no electricity in my apartment and the whole city experienced a disruption in service According to his defense attorney the accused robber's statement in court was not completely true The town instituted the use of school buses to enforce its new commitment Cto a policy ofdiversity Answers Because of budget cuts at the company my mother's job was eliminated The writer wanted to make it clear that the mother was not to blame for the loss of her job Sadly the neighborhood where we used to live is now said to be a less desirable place to live The writer is trying not to say that di ?erent kinds of people are moving in probably causing property values to decline To her great embarrassment Eileen's mother called her slightly overweight Probably Eileen's mother thinks her daughter is more than slightly overweight and actually fat but is trying to soften the blow by calling her pleasingly plump the mother is hardly pleased and is trying to cover her displeasure with a bit of humor Moe's Used Cars was the newest business in town and apparently it was extremely successful in these hard ?nancial times Calling used cars pre-owned is an attempt to make them sound more desirable since used cars are generally thought to be of little value Every Tuesday night we put out our recycling bins for the garbage men to pick up on Wednesday mornings Calling garbage men sanitation engineers is an attempt to make this di ?-cult and distasteful job sound more respectable and somehow scienti ?c and skilled The general explained that many civilian casualties resulted during the platoon's e ?orts to defeat the enemy forces Neutralizing the target is a dramatically deceptive and euphemistic way to describe the cold hard facts of war Presumably it is an attempt by military spokespersons to protect the feelings of civilians Mary Lou was pregnant again which pleased her son and her parents enormously Strangely the word pregnant continues to be considered slightly taboo In centuries past in many middle- and upper-class circles women went into seclusion and never appeared in public during pregnancy During
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