Nouna mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
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The correct answer would be c.
The first poet to popularize the sonnet form is Francesco Petrarch, whose sonnets subsequently inspired Earl of Surrey, Shakespeare, Edmund Spencer, and many others to write sonnets.
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The writer of the text - A Brief History of Football – and “Soccer” uses informal english lanuage to communicate to the readers. His tone is rather colloquial and conversational.
This style supports the point he is trying to make because the evolution of and adoption of the word "soccer" for instance seem to have happened informally and became adapted from the more formal phrase "Association Football".
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