Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: TRUNCATED

Correct — C. To truncate is to shorten something by cutting off a part, usually its end. A truncated report or a truncated cone has been cut short.

Shortened, made less in length, carries the same meaning → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Lengthened — Lengthened means made longer, the exact reverse of truncated. It would answer an antonym question, not this one.
• (b)
  Extended — Extended also means made longer, in length or in time. Like lengthened, it points the opposite way from truncated, which removes a part.
• (d)
  Complicated — Complicated is about difficulty, not size. Truncate says nothing about how complex a thing is, only that part of its length has been cut off.

A synonym question asks for the word closest in meaning. Truncate is a verb of reduction: you truncate a text by cutting its end, a decimal by dropping its last digits, a cone by slicing off its top.

The options hide a direction test. Lengthened and extended mean the reverse, so a candidate who remembers only that truncate is 'about length' can still go wrong.

Fix the direction first, cut shorter, and shortened is left.

Key facts

• Truncate: to shorten something by cutting off a part, especially the end.
• Truncate comes from Latin truncare, 'to cut off'.
• A cone truncated parallel to its base is a frustum.
• Antonyms of truncate: lengthen, extend, prolong.

Common traps

• Remembering that truncate is about length but not which way. Lengthened and extended are there to catch that half-memory.

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