Grammar: Using familiar language

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Keeping It Simple
Some people use inflated language because they think it makes them sound impressive, but using 
words readers don’t immediately recognize only slows them down and leads to confusion.

Use familiar and plain language to rewrite these sentences. You may need to look up some of the words so you 
can choose simpler ones.

1. The manager tendered his resignation after a catalogue of unfortunate decisions mitigated his 
continuation as an effective leader.
 
2. After copious numbers of compulsory exercises requiring arduous mental calisthenics, the members 
of the team retired to intake libations.
 
3. It is a tricky problem to find the particular calibration in timing that would be appropriate to stem 
the acceleration in risk premiums.

4. Due to a negative patient outcome, the legal team at the hospital engaged in remediation strategies 
designed to palliate the possibility of litigious activities.

5. Once we prognosticate how upturns and downturns impact short and long-term income earning data, we’ll generate a position paper.
 
6. We facilitated the cross-pollinated production of the hard deliverables and real-time benchmarks.

7. Only a disrupter of the most comprehensive scope will enable the stimulation of efficacious results.
 
8. The meeting will debrief participants about the egregious affair and instill alternative modes of 
deactivating such reprehensible behavior.

9. The disproportionate amount of grandiloquent terminology was detrimental to the ultimate goal of 
communicating the new regulations to the members of the audience.
 
10. Irrespective of the necessity to terminate the contract, the quintessential goal of the assembly is to 
truncate all further colloquy on the issue.