Craft and StructureHardWord for a deliberately misleading statement
Craft and Structure practice question
The brochure's claim that the hotel is 'a short stroll from the beach' is ____: the walk takes forty minutes and crosses a motorway.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. disingenuousCorrect
- B. accurate
- C. modest
- D. tentative
Answer: A. disingenuous
'A short stroll' for a forty-minute walk over a motorway: not honestly meant.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. accurate
- The description is plainly inaccurate.
- C. modest
- Modest would understate a real virtue; this overstates.
- D. tentative
- The claim is confident, not tentative.
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