breaking bad news
B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The act of sensitively informing a patient or relative of a serious diagnosis, poor prognosis or death.
Breaking bad news well means creating the right setting, warning the patient, and pausing to let it sink in.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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