chance22
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In the following sentence:
In a significant ____ (intensifying/tightening) of legal controls over the press, the Lord Chancellor will introduce a draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses illegal.
I tend to choose tightening, because I have seen expressions like "to tighten up on the control" and "to tighten one's hold on something", but the answer is intensifying. I don't know the difference between these two words, so could you explain it? Thank you.
In a significant ____ (intensifying/tightening) of legal controls over the press, the Lord Chancellor will introduce a draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses illegal.
I tend to choose tightening, because I have seen expressions like "to tighten up on the control" and "to tighten one's hold on something", but the answer is intensifying. I don't know the difference between these two words, so could you explain it? Thank you.