Word List

Use the following words in the paragraph below.

Negotiation

Contention

Scale

decision-maker

trepidacious

accomodate

consult

Redistribute

Exchange

In short,


This summer, the bus union had _______________ with their employers.  Each side chose representatives who could act as _______________ during their meetings.  Before the meetings between workers and management, each sides’ representatives __________ed with their peers.


Their first meeting did not go well.  They ___________d ideas and demands, but they couldn’t reach an agreement.  There was a great deal of ___________ between the representatives.  Before their second meeting, they felt ___________.  Luckily, however, both sides decided to change the _________ of their demands.  ____________, they __________________d their effort to focus on their most important demands.  In this way, they managed ____________ both sides’ needs and reach an agreement.