{"id":3120,"date":"2016-04-19T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:43:45","slug":"toefl-tuesday-vocabulary-true-false-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/toefl-tuesday-vocabulary-true-false-words\/","title":{"rendered":"TOEFL Tuesday: Vocabulary &#8211; True &#038; False Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again this week, I\u2019m going to take three vocabulary words from Official TOEFL iBT Tests Volume 2.  <\/p>\n<p>This week, the theme is \u201ctrue or false.\u201d The three TOEFL vocabulary words below are all related to whether information is truthful. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"TOEFL Tuesday: Vocabulary - True &amp; False Words\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FervcF2_QVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>(to be) Preposterous<\/h2>\n<p>If you think something is completely unbelievable\u2014almost stupid because it\u2019s so crazy sounding\u2014then this is a great word to use. \u201cPreposterous\u201d means exactly that!<\/p>\n<p>Say, for example, my friend has just had a baby named Julie. This little girl is only two months old. As is true of most tiny babies, when I see her, she\u2019s sleeping, crying, or just drooling.<\/p>\n<p>Now, imagine I see my friend, and he says \u201cJulie made her first full sentence yesterday!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d look at him and say \u201cNope. That\u2019s preposterous.\u201d It\u2019s nonsense! There\u2019s no way the two-month old baby is already speaking in sentences. <\/p>\n<h2>(to be) Sound<\/h2>\n<p>No, I don\u2019t mean the noun\u2014I\u2019m not talking about a noise. The adjective sound has a completely different meaning. It\u2019s almost opposite of \u201cpreposterous,\u201d in a way, but it is used for ideas, arguments, and theories, not stories (like the story about the baby).  If an idea is sound, it makes logical sense. There are no problems with it, so I believe it\u2019s probably true. <\/p>\n<p>Say, for example, you want to tell me that American universities are too expensive. It\u2019s definitely true that they are expensive, so unsurprisingly, you could create a sound argument for why they should be less expensive, using clear facts and data that support your idea.<\/p>\n<h2>(to be) Revealing<\/h2>\n<p>Again, this word is not what it looks like! I don\u2019t mean the verb \u201creveal,\u201d even though this looks like the present continuous form of that verb (for example, \u201cthe clouds are floating away and revealing the top of the mountain.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about the adjective, instead. In that form, this word means that some information logically gives you other interesting information.<\/p>\n<p>Say, for example, a company called Bastion Inc. makes jeans. And imagine that people who buy Bastion jeans often ask for refunds\u2014maybe 50% of people ask for their money back. That\u2019s interesting information, because it tells you something else: Bastion probably makes low-quality jeans! The number of refunds is revealing. It shows you information that\u2019s true but was unknown before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again this week, I\u2019m going to take three vocabulary words from Official TOEFL iBT Tests Volume 2. This week, the theme is \u201ctrue or false.\u201d The three TOEFL vocabulary words below are all related to whether information is truthful. 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