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How well do you ask for clarification in English? When you don’t understand something, choosing the right phrase makes all the difference. This crossword will help you practise the key expressions used to check understanding, request repetition, and confirm information in everyday conversations.
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Clues
Across
- 1. not accurate or not right
- 9. To go away from
- 11. All members of a group
- 14. adding more detail to explain something
- 15. understand or track reasoning
- 16. genuinely and without pretense
Down
- 2. verification that something is correct
- 3. suggest without directly stating
- 4. restate text in your own words
- 5. act of making something clearer
- 6. stating something precisely and clearly
- 7. easy to understand or see
- 8. expressing something in different words
- 10. statement that makes something clear
- 12. in exact and accurate terms
- 13. Of short duration
Answers
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Across
- 1. not accurate or not right → incorrect
- 9. To go away from → leave
- 11. All members of a group → every
- 14. adding more detail to explain something → elaboration
- 15. understand or track reasoning → follow
- 16. genuinely and without pretense → sincerely
Down
- 2. verification that something is correct → confirmation
- 3. suggest without directly stating → imply
- 4. restate text in your own words → paraphrase
- 5. act of making something clearer → clarification
- 6. stating something precisely and clearly → specifying
- 7. easy to understand or see → clear
- 8. expressing something in different words → rephrasing
- 10. statement that makes something clear → explanation
- 12. in exact and accurate terms → precisely
- 13. Of short duration → brief
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