{"id":784,"date":"2010-09-28T06:23:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:53","slug":"visual-dictionary-truss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary-truss\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Truss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Visual Dictionary<\/A>, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" This is a truss<\/a>. It supports a roof.<\/p>\n

\"\" This is also a truss<\/a>. It supports the wearer’s back.<\/p>\n

You get the idea. Let’s try an Antonyms problem!<\/p>\n

TRUSS:
\nA. IMPLODE
\nB. UNBURDEN
\nC. DETERIORATE
\nD. UNBIND
\nE. UNTWIST<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Choose your own answer, then click “more.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

As a verb, TRUSS means “tie up, bind, or support.” So we want a word that means UNTIE or UNBIND, or possibly PUSH DOWN.<\/p>\n

Choice D is an obvious match. Note the “smoke and mirrors” of three choices that begin with “-un.” That’s just a distractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures. This is a truss. It supports a roof. This is also a truss. It supports the wearer’s back. You get the idea. Let’s try an Antonyms problem! TRUSS: A. IMPLODE B. UNBURDEN C. DETERIORATE D. UNBIND E. UNTWIST Choose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7350,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}