tact

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

tact BrE [tækt] NAmE [tækt] noun uncountable
the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people
Syn: ↑sensitivity
•Settling the dispute required great tact and diplomacy.
•She is not exactly known for her tact.

Word Origin:
[tact] mid 17th cent. (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus ‘touch, sense of touch’, from tangere ‘to touch’.

Example Bank:
•The incident should have been handled with more tact by the police.
•The situation called for considerable tact.
•Their host, who was the soul of tact, never mentioned the incident again.