Jan 28, 2008 · Hi Sempronio, First of all, welcome to the forum!! I may be a radical old anarchist, but I would not be inclined to use either "sir" or "ma'am" when addressing a police or army officer in …

Feb 19, 2007 · Since you say you are "wide open": have you considered playing around with all the verbs/nouns built on "fusion," for example, infusion, defusion, confusion or defuse, refuse, infuse, …

Oct 10, 2022 · At this point, Georges and Yolande have been lovers for more than 3 months and made frequent use of the "tu." But she's married, the mother of two, and significantly older than him. My …

Sep 11, 2010 · Hi, is the expression idiomatic to be used in conditional speech in an apology for failure to take part in an activity? Suppose someone wasn't able to turn up a date your his girlfriend due to …

Jun 12, 2013 · This, if it works, can only defuse the effect. One must be either a player or a commentator. Having said all that, I must admit there is an exception: and that is when 'obviously' is …

Apr 29, 2009 · Hello everybody, I'd like to ask about the opposite of " escalate". For example, Escalate an issue to the upper management. My suggestions are "belittle" and "deprecate". Thanks in advance.

Jul 28, 2011 · Hello,I came cross this multiple choice question.No context provided. 1.She's learning to speak Frech (The answer is right,it's no doubt) 2.She's learning...

Sep 10, 2012 · The dictionary in here does give you guidance on how to say these tow, including how we use different sounds to distunguish between a verb and an adjective for diffuse.

Apr 11, 2016 · Hi. I would like to know how American English users write and pronounce the word ''defuse''. I found a suggestion in one dictionary that ''defuse''=British English, and …

Nov 16, 2016 · The verbs diffuse and defuse sound similar but have different meanings. Diffuse means, broadly, ‘disperse’, while the non-literal meaning of defuse is ‘reduce the danger or tension in’. Thus …