Neil and Dan teach you how to use the language the world’s media is using to discuss this story:

Reports from Los Angeles say a deal has been struck to avert the first strike by Hollywood screenwriters in a decade. Members of the Writers Guild of America had been demanding better pay and benefits.

Vocabulary:

averted
stopped something bad from happening

tentative
not certain or definite

looms
causes worry

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