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1 is a substitution for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver, using instead an agreeable or less offensive expression, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker. Shake Your Euphemism Euphemisms

2 George Carlin

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4 Some examples of Euphemisms pre-owned car - used car/second-hand car restroom (US English) - toilet to pass on - to die friendly fire - being fired upon by your own side in battle enhanced interrogation technique - torture the big C - cancer

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6 Euphemisms - Death pushing up the daisies to croak food for the worms snuff out the candle swansong to be toast gravestone/headstone the sands of time running out

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9 Arguments have words with someone

10 Being poor financially embarrassed

11 Being Crazy An olive short of a pizza

12 No matter how you say it… Euphemism commercial

13 Euphemisms in the Giver With a partner, begin to write down some euphemisms used by Lois Lowry in The Giver. EUPHEMISMS What does Jonas’s community really mean by the following words: 1. Release (page 2): 2. Feelings (page 4) 3. Animals (page 5) 4. Nurturer (page 7)

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