[General] more apparent than real

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Silverobama

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Hi,

What does this sentence mean?

Their affluence is more apparent than real.

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1) What is the context?
2) What in this sentence causes you trouble? Have you looked up the words in a dictionary? What do you think the sentence could mean?
 

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I don't know the context. The sentence seems to be written be someone who just wanted to use a word to write a sentence.

I know every the meaning of every words in the sentence, but the sentence puzzles me.

Does it mean "their affluence is not real affluence"?
 

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I don't know the context. The sentence seems to be written be someone who just wanted to use a word to write a sentence.

I know every the meaning of every words in the sentence, but the sentence puzzles me.

Does it mean "their affluence is not real affluence"?
Yes. But it appears to be.
 
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