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Avoid synonym traps

you they'll be trying to they'll make you think you know an answer but it's not really the correct answer but you've seen a word that looks like a synonym to the word in the in...

Course: Cambridge language skillsSection: Cambridge reading exam strategiesSubtitles: en

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to trick

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you they'll be trying to

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they'll make you think you know an

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answer but it's not really the correct

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answer

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but you've seen a word that looks like a

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synonym to the word in the

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in one of the options but be very very

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careful you need to

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to always think twice and check your

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answers

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so that's the way you need to think when

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you're when you're doing this part of

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the exam

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you need to find the exact answer not

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just something which

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sounds right or could be right no you

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need to identify words and phrases

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which really answer the question okay

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let's go on to the next part of the the

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reading

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okay this is part six in the

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cambridge advanced the the c1 advanced

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but it doesn't exist in the first

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certificate the b1 first

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the b2 first or the proficiency

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so if you're doing if you're preparing

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for those exams then you can skip to the

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next part

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and in this part you will see four texts

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from four different

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writers on the same topic and you need

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to compare

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their opinions okay so read the text

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relatively quickly as before

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but then read the questions very

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carefully

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because the questions here are equally

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as

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