Hello,
Can anyone please help me out deciphering this TC question using Greg’s STRATEGIES? Especially for the 2nd blank.
This question is one of his verbal questions in mini exams that he had explained it. But its still unclear to me.
The first part of the sentence According..... one's favor hint’s towards not bad (or if you read the full question than you can re-use untruthsalso). Then indeed → signals the support/reinforcement for the same idea. Now, duplicity (a way of saying harm ) if those untruths are ______ vocalized (Now, due to the world vocalized, it’s hinting me towards that if we make our untruth unmistakable or sell it off as the only truth then some serious harm can occur! )
Thanks for your explanation!
@gregmat uses strategies to solve these kinds of questions and he doesnt necessarily interpret them. He said that the clue for the 2nd blank is ‘not conceal’ found in the 1st part of the sentence. ‘It is NOT… to CONCEAL truth.’
However, in the 2nd part of the whole sentence, we have ‘untruth’ in contrast with ‘truth’. See:
It is not duplicitous to CONCEAL truth.
Indeed duplicity occurs when untruth is clearly vocalized.
The problems are, as far as I get it,
1- we ALREADY has used ‘NOT’ to turn ‘TRUTH’ into ‘UNTRUTH’.
There is no other ‘not’ so that we use it to change ‘conceal’ into ‘clearly vocalized’.
2- how should we come up with the idea to get these words as the clues for the 2nd blank?
Is this reasoning wrong?
Please help me understand it.
Thanks again!
Let tackle it sentence by sentence…
First we’ve been given:
According to Joel, it is not _____ to conceal the truths,
Now, without reading anymore let’s take the guess : well generally telling lies is a bad thing hence, the blank should be negative but we’ve a not before the blank thus, we need to put in a positive word. So, I will just put Good in the blank. Reading on further…
especially those not in one's favor
well that changes our understanding of the blank(i) completely because now the author is hinting that hiding truth are ok as long they’re benefiting us. So, we’ll remove the Good that we’ve put in blank(i) and change it with bad so, the overall idea will now be positive. Reading on…
indeed , duplicity occurs only when untruths are _______ vocalized.
Now, indeed is just reaffirming our idea so far( idea: that telling lies is not that bad as long as we’re benefiting from it) but look at the wordings after indeed - " duplicity occurs only when" . Here , the author is giving us a condition signal by only when and duplicity (means something bad in simple terms). Thus, the author is providing us with a condition that bad things happen only when "untruths are ________ vocalized ". Now, in the first blank we’re only hiding (conceal) the truth and that is a ok/good thing but if we’re broadcasting(vocalizing) our lies(untruth) in a ______ manner that has a negative effect (think of this as selling our lies as a straight up facts or making our lies [irrefutable])
Thank you so much! I appreciate it.
hey, are the answers to this mendacious and nonchalant?
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