{"id":1776,"date":"2015-06-02T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:32:25","slug":"toefl-tuesday-vocabulary-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/toefl-tuesday-vocabulary-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"TOEFL Tuesday: Vocabulary Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qm286JVJa0E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our lesson today is about a specific type of question on the TOEFL Reading section: vocabulary questions. There are 3-5 of these on every TOEFL reading passage. Since you will see 3 or 4 passages on your test, you could see nearly 20 vocabulary questions like this on your test. That makes them very important.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also important to do quickly. Simply knowing the meaning of the word is the fastest way to answer a question like this, so expanding your vocabulary is a good idea for improving on these questions. You don\u2019t want to rely on reading the text every time. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the example: <\/p>\n<p><em>The primary purpose of the male cicada\u2019s song is to attract a female with which to breed. Cicadas tend to be very well <mark>camouflaged<\/mark>, and can blend into their surrounding tree-based environments easily. The song of the cicada provides the clues through which the female cicada can find the nearest male.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The word <mark>camouflaged<\/mark> in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hidden<\/li>\n<li>buried<\/li>\n<li>placed<\/li>\n<li>heard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Note that the text is only an excerpt. A full TOEFL text is 700+ words.)<\/p>\n<p>If we know \u201ccamouflaged\u201d means that something looks like the area around it, so the thing cannot be seen easily, then the answer to this question is clear: \u201chidden\u201d is the best match in meaning. We don\u2019t need to read the text to answer, which is good, because it\u2019s fast!<br \/>\nBut if you don\u2019t know the meaning of the word \u201ccamouflaged,\u201d the text can help a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The description immediately after the word \u201ccamouflaged\u201d gives us a clue. It says that cicadas \u201ccan blend into their surrounding tree-based environments easily.\u201d But this depends on the phrasal verb \u201cblend in.\u201d The word \u201cblend\u201d means \u201cmix,\u201d in a way. If you blend red and yellow, you create orange, for example. The phrase \u201cblend in\u201d means that something it\u2019s hard to see, because it looks like other nearby things. Animals often use this to be safe, because they\u2019re hard to see. That is same as the meaning of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technocrazed.com\/top-23-spectacular-examples-of-animal-camouflage-photo-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">camouflage<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also another clue. If we consider this paragraph as a whole, we understand a few key points: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Male cicadas sing so females will come.<\/li>\n<li>Females use the songs as clues.<\/li>\n<li>The song helps females find males.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So we can infer that the males are hard to find. Imagine if they were easy to find: the females would not need clues. So if they are hard to find, \u201chidden\u201d makes sense as an answer.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the tricky part: \u201cburied\u201d and \u201cplaced\u201d also make some sense. You can\u2019t easily find something that\u2019s buried, and \u201cwell placed\u201d could mean that it\u2019s hard to find, in a good location to hide from danger. The TOEFL likes to use words that make some sense as wrong answer. But they simply don\u2019t match the meaning of the tested word. \u201cCamouflaged\u201d and \u201cburied,\u201d for example, have very different meanings. So knowing the meaning before reading the context is extremely important, especially because it can save you so much time.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our lesson today is about a specific type of question on the TOEFL Reading section: vocabulary questions. There are 3-5 of these on every TOEFL reading passage. Since you will see 3 or 4 passages on your test, you could see nearly 20 vocabulary questions like this on your test. 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