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Facilitate:
make a process easier, help, guide
CDC Original Sentences:
The role of the mediator, or neutral, is to facilitate a mutually acceptable resolution to the dispute.
Facilitators manage and facilitate distributed groups of people by using a variety of tools and applying their skills in a different environment.
Plain Language Sentences:
Mediators, or neutrals, help create a solution that everyone is willing to accept.
People who lead groups not in the same physical place have different tools and skills to help the group do its work.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
Feasible:
can be done, workable, will work, possible, can do, doable
CDC Original Sentences:
Evaluation involves procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate.
Plain Language Sentences:
Evaluation involves a process with steps that are useful, doable, ethical, and accurate.
Entry Last Modified 4 November 2016
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