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Dale's Idioms Diff P
How to Deal With Difficult People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| trigger | to cause to happen |
| influence | to affect, to have some power |
| dissolve | to make go away or disappear |
| resist | to fight against, to take a stand |
| fuel the fire | to make the situation more serious and dangerous |
| persist | to keep trying |
| escalate | to increase, to go up |
| validate | to make someone feel understood and significant by listening to someone's feelings and opinion |
| perspective | viewpoint, opinion |
| tilt | lean, tip, move to one side, |
| intently | carefully and in a focused way |
| call out | to confront, to face directly, to say directly |
| loop | to circle, to go around |
| offset | to change a little, to move out of position |
| approach | a style that you use to do something |
| tons | lots |
| proactive | to do things before a problem starts |
| downplay | to not make a big deal out of something, treat as less serious |
| escalate | to increase |
| commonalities | similarities, things that are the same |