🇬🇧🇨🇳 fallacy - 谬论 : English Lesson

Meaning of "fallacy" ("谬论"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A fallacy is an idea that sounds smart or seems true at first, but is actually wrong or doesn’t make sense when you think carefully about it.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Timmy’s belief that eating cake is a form of exercise is a delicious fallacy.

Believing that your socks disappear because a sock monster is hungry is a funny fallacy, not science.

Liam used the fallacy that since his room was messy yesterday, it should stay messy forever for “historical reasons.”

Our dog lives by the fallacy that if it falls on the floor, it legally belongs to him.

It’s a fallacy to think you get stronger by lifting only potato chips instead of actual weights.

At dusk, Jonas screamed at his garden shadow, calling it a monster; his fallacy warmed him like fear. He had trusted the fallacy. His mother lifted the lamp and showed the tall fallacy was only a tree and light. Jonas laughed at his fallacy, then pointed, still trembling. The family smiled; the night lost its fallacy, and Jonas slept.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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