Euphemistically - Euphemistic language uses polite, pleasant, or neutral words and expressions to refer to things which people may find unpleasant, upsetting, or embarrassing to talk about, for example sex, the human body, or death.
Tout, Touted - If someone touts something, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.
I (Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao) was 8 years old, and being separated from both parents for the first time in my life was confusing and scary. My mother decided to stay behind with my five remaining siblings to wait for my father to return. An officer in the South Vietnam Army fighting alongside the Americans during the Vietnam War, my father spent the next seven years in the communist prisons, which were euphemistically called "re-education camps." It was many years later when our family was reunited.
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Although the academic achievements of Vietnamese students in schools were touted in the media, we also agonized over the horrific news about the plights of the Vietnamese boat people.
Source - http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/01/cao.who.am.i/index.html?hpt=Mid
Dictionary - http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=en|en&q=euphemistically
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