In ‘The new policy may alleviate the financial burden,’ what does ‘alleviate’ mean?
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'Alleviate' means to reduce pain, difficulty, or severity.
The policy is expected to lessen the burden.
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'Alleviate' means to reduce pain, difficulty, or severity.
The policy is expected to lessen the burden.
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The idiom means saying or identifying precisely what is correct.
It describes accuracy in understanding a problem.
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'Inevitable' describes something that cannot be prevented.
'Unavoidable' has the same essential meaning.
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'Call off' means decide that a planned event will not take place.
The event is cancelled.
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'Expand' means to become larger or more extensive.
'Contract' means to become smaller.
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'Thorough knowledge' is a natural collocation meaning complete and detailed understanding.
The other choices do not combine naturally with 'knowledge' here.
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The phrase refers to an unreal present identity.
Formal conditional usage prefers the subjunctive 'were.'
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A title used with a name, a language, and an institution's proper name are capitalized.
Common words not functioning as proper names remain lowercase.
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'Had I known' is an inverted third conditional equivalent to 'If I had known.'
The conditional conjunction is omitted after inversion.
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The clause adds nonessential information about an already identified brother.
Nonrestrictive clauses are enclosed by commas.
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'Should you need' is a formal inverted conditional meaning 'If you should need.'
It expresses a possible future condition.
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A person's name used in direct address is set off by commas.
The punctuation separates the addressee from the sentence grammar.