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Fluency: True or False?

List of vocabulary words. Determine whether each of the following statements is true or false. Please explain your answer. (TRUNCATED ) adj. cut short; with an angle cut off ) There were two oblique flights of stairs outside the restaurant, forming a sort of TRUNCATED triangle.

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3. If a story is TRUNCATED, it spins out at great length.

Please explain why you said true or false.

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False. In fact, it does not spin out at all. Truncated in this context means that the story is cut short or cut off. The odd angle idea works well for a building; there is almost another meaning for a story

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