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    Example - Definitions (Context Clues)

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    This document provides examples of context clues to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It includes 6 sentences with unfamiliar words and provides multiple choice options to select the best definition based on the context clues. The context clues include synonyms, antonyms, and the overall meaning implied by the sentence.

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    Example - Definitions (Context Clues)

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    This document provides examples of context clues to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It includes 6 sentences with unfamiliar words and provides multiple choice options to select the best definition based on the context clues. The context clues include synonyms, antonyms, and the overall meaning implied by the sentence.

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    This document provides examples of context clues to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It includes 6 sentences with unfamiliar words and provides multiple choice options to select the best definition based on the context clues. The context clues include synonyms, antonyms, and the overall meaning implied by the sentence.

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    Example - Definitions (Context Clues)

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    Carla Malloy Jefferson
    This document provides examples of context clues to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It includes 6 sentences with unfamiliar words and provides multiple choice options to select the best definition based on the context clues. The context clues include synonyms, antonyms, and the overall meaning implied by the sentence.

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    Context Clues

    Using the Example and Definition Clues

    Directions: Read the sentence and use either the synonym clue or antonym clue to determine the meaning of the
    unfamiliar word.

    1. Projectiles include those items that are shot forward The word constable in this sentence means
    such as a cannon shell, bullet, or rocket.
    A. jockey
    The word projectiles in this sentence means B. policeman
    C. criminal
    A. things put down D. poor person
    B. things broken
    C. things hurt 5. After the driver lost control of her automobile, the
    D. things shot forward vehicle careened off the road. It went down a bank
    Julie has many culinary talents - cooking an incredible and slammed into a tree.
    meatloaf and cooking an amazing chicken. The word careened in this sentence means
    The word culinary in this sentence means A. straightened
    A. of cooking B. arranged
    B. of science C. tidied
    C. of medicine D. zigzagged
    D. of math

    2. This summer we needed to move the pigs to their 6. The tornado annihilated the whole town to the point
    new pen. The old sow stubbornly refused to move. that nothing was left standing.
    The old aphorism, "pig-headed," sure described her.
    The word annihilated in this sentence means
    The word aphorism in this sentence means
    A. created
    A. falsehood B. saved
    B. saying C. destroyed
    C. forgery D. constructed
    D. untruth

    3. Samantha is so querulous, such as complaining that


    the teacher didn't call on her, that it's hard to be her
    friend sometimes.

    The word querulous in this sentence means

    A. hateful
    B. pleasant
    C. ugly
    D. whining

    4. In Great Britain, the police officer was called a


    constable.

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