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broach

verb/brəʊtʃ/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To raise a difficult or sensitive subject for discussion for the first time.

It can be hard to broach the topic of end-of-life wishes, so I try to do it gently.

Similar: raise

Topic: Patient-facing communication in Medical English

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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