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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which question should you ask yourself when using context clues?
Where is the dictionary?
What is the root word?
What is the text about?
What part of a word is it?
- 2. Multiple Choice
Choose the sentences about signal words that are true. (there is more than one)
Signal words area type of context clue.
Signal words show how words are related.
There are many kinds of signal words.
Signal words can't help you define a difficult word in text.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which words can signal a definition in a sentence? (mark all that are correct)
or
because
are
means
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which statements about signal words and definitions are true? (mark all that are correct)
Signal words cannot help define difficult words.
Definitions often come after signal words in a sentence.
To be, means, and or are common words that signal a definition.
Authors often define difficult words in a text.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Define insomnia in the following sentence:
Drinking coffee late at night can give you insomnia, which means the inability to sleep.
A great amount of energy
Nightmares
A stomach ache
The inability to sleep.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Define essential in the following sentence:
For almost all living things, water is essential, which means extremely important.
Slippery and wet
Alive or active
Extremely important
A pleasant smell
- 7. Multiple Choice
Choose the definition that best fits the word anxiety:
Unable to sleep, Trevor tossed and turned in bed for most of the night. Whenever he closed his eyes, he imagined himself failing his final exam. Somehow he managed to tame his anxiety, or feelings of worry or nervousness, and finally rest.
A test or exam
A stomach ache
Elementary School
Feeling worried or nervous
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which statements about signal words and definitions are true? (Check all correct answers)
Signal words cannot help define difficult words.
Only two main words signal a definition in a sentence.
A sentence with the word means might not have a definition.
Was may signal a definition because it is a form of "to be"
Using a dictionary is the only way to define a difficult word.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for the word conquistador:
The room was surprisingly bright and cool. The makeshift conquistador (which was what the Spanish soldiers were called) pointed out carvings of ships and strange letters in the walls. He explained that these drawings and wordings were carved into the walls by the soldiers and had been there for some three hundred years.
The name for a Spanish soldier
Makeshift
Writing in another language
Three hundred years
- 10. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for the word encyclopedia:
"The encyclopedia is a reference for all branches of knowledge," the librarian said to the class.
The largest book in a library
A reference for all branches of knowledge
Another name for a dictionary.
An instruction manual
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which word or phrase signals an example in the sentence?
Astronomers use telescopes to study red giants and other kinds of stars.
Use
To
Kinds of
Other
Red giants
- 12. Multiple Choice
Choose all the words that can signal and example in a sentence.
(There will be more than one answer)
Other
Such as
For example
Are
Means
- 13. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for dietary:
The cafeteria has food for people with dietary issues, such as not eating meat or dairy.
Losing weight
Related to what can or cannot be eaten
Extremely warm
Overly concerned with one's appearance
- 14. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for the word culinary:
The school offers many culinary classes-for example, how to cook meats and properly use knives.
Educational or academics
Related to cooking and food
Very expensive
Occurring outdoors
- 15. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for lens:
The photographer adjusted the lens as well as the other parts of his camera.
The part of the camera that lets in light.
A person who takes photographs.
The glass in a pair of eyeglasses.
The outer part of the eye.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which word or phrase signals an example in the sentence?
Fancy restaurants have specific placements for forks and other silverware.
Have specific
Silverware
Other
For
- 17. Multiple Choice
Choose all the words that can signal an example in a sentence. (There is more than one answer)
Other
Or
For example
Such as
Means
- 18. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for android:
Isaac Asimov wrote about androids and other kinds of robots.
A powerful adding machine, such as a calculator.
A robot that looks like a human.
An electronic weapon.
An imaginary creature
- 19. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for emerald:
The jeweler can cut any precious gem, such as an emerald.
A person who studies rocks
A green-colored gem
Something cheap or not very costly
Specific and exact
- 20. Multiple Choice
Choose the best definition for zinc:
The treasury makes pennies out of zinc. Other metals are much more expensive.
An important vitamin.
Something cheap or inexpensive
A bluish-white metal
A machine that makes money.
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