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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?

  1. A. disingenuousCorrect
  2. B. accurate
  3. C. modest
  4. 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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