Passages 2 - C22 - Adjectives to describe truth

Why are you reading that silly magazine? You know that most of those stories are ______ at best.

• conceivable

• dubious

• credible

I enjoy making fun of the articles! Look at this crazy story about a man who saw an upside-down rainbow. Everyone knows that a rainbow's arc is at the top. It sounds pretty _________ to me.

• fishy

• plausible

• conceivable

I recently read in a science journal that an upside-down rainbow can occur. There's even a scientific name for it. So I think that story is _______ after all.

• well-founded

• iffy

• misleading

There's a story about glowing green mushrooms. It's reported that if you put one on a newspaper in a dark room, it would give off so much light that you could read the words! This story sounds _____ to me. I've never heard of anything like that.

• credible

• phony

• convincing

... but jellyfish and fireflies give off light, so why do you think it's ______ for mushrooms to glow?

• far-fetched

• convincing

• misleading

Well, I haven't see any ______ evidence that glowing plants exist. But now that you say that, it does make me wonder.

• fishy

• convincing

• dubious

Choose the word that doesn't fit the meaning of the sentence.

- It's ____ that many lowland areas will be under water if the current trend in climate change continues.

• conceivable

• misleading

• plausible

Choose the word that doesn't fit the meaning of the sentence.

- Fad diets that promise you'll lose 10 pounds the first day sound _____ to me. There's no way you can lose 10 pounds in one day!

• convincing

• fishy

• far-fetched

Choose the word that doesn't fit the meaning of the sentence.

- Beware of ____ emails that ask you to supply personal information like your credit card number or your salary.

• dubious

• phony

• well-founded

Choose the word that doesn't fit the meaning of the sentence.

- Greta gave such a(n) ____ performance in the play that I almost forgot she was acting!

• believable

• convincing

• iffy