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The best strategy for dealing with an unknown Word is
Look it up in a bilingual dictionary
Ask your teacher
Ask another person, a friend or your parents
Try to guess what it means
Some reasons for guessing meaning from context are:
It helps your concentration because you stay focused on the general sense.
It helps build vocabulary because you propably remember the words.
It demands you to know a lot of vocabulary.
It requires a good usage of dictionary.
A good way to make good guesses about unknown words is
Read the first paragraph to identify the topic sentence.
Read the first lines of a paragraph to locate specific information.
Examine the context of the word.
Preview and predict the topic of the text.
Where would you find the following words: Crops, soil, fertilizers, climate?
In a text on Agriculture
In a text on Criminology
In a text on History of art
In a text on English Grammar
What is the best option for the italicized word?: "Because there was so little precipitation this year, the crops dried up and died".
Fertilizer
Planting
Rain
Harvesting
My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.
Dislikes intensely
Eats eagerly
Prepares and cooks
Harvests and sells
All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.
Necessary for
Important to
Symbolic of
Unique to
All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.
Appreciate
Comprehend
Classify
Visualize
Yet diversity among birds is not as striking as it is among mammals.
Function
Heredity
Specialty
Variety
The difference between a hummingbird and an emu is great, but hardly as dramatic as that between a bat and a whale.
Definitely
Not nearly
Possibly
Not softly
Her parents separated when she was a small child, so she has lived with her _____.
money
grandmother
read
learn
She likes to _____ books and it is a big help in her career.
money
grandmother
read
learn
Last week was Henry’s birthday. His girlfriend bought him a new _____.
shoe
party
dance
watch
The affluent families live in big houses and drive expensive cars.
small
rich
poor
kind
The police barricaded the entrance so that people who were outside could not get into the concert hall.
blocked
opened
cleared
left
You have to take another sky train to continue your journey because this one terminates here.
ends
starts
changes
runs
Although at first they loathed each other, they became very close friends.
loved
liked
knew
hate
While some animals leave their offspring in the wild right after birth, elephants remain with their children until they are old enough to take care of themselves.
animals
children
elephants
wild
My mom was infuriated when she learned that I skipped classes.
angry
happy
excited
hungry
The workers demolished the old houses so that a new shopping mall will be built.
built
destroyed
fixed
cleaned
The snake slithered through the grass. He was hunting.( what does slither mean?
stopped moving
slept in the grass
ate something
moved or traveled
The tiger's roar could be heard in villages far away. (What does roar probably mean? )
food a tiger eats
a tiger's dream
a sound a tiger makes
a tiger's ear
The thought of eating a rat is abhorrent to most people. (What does abhorrent probably mean? )
fun, lively
horrible, repugnant
delicious, tasty
sweet, sugary
You can trust the salesmen at that store because they always conduct business in an aboveboard manner. (What does aboveboard probably mean? )
honestly, openly
sneaky, dishonest
horrible, repugnant
strange, unusual
Petra has so many friends because she is a gregarious person. (What does gregarious probably mean? )
introverted, self-contained
shy, quiet
friendly, outgoing
rude, hostile
The lovely egret is in danger of extinction because clothing manufacturers use their long, beautiful tail feathers to make ladies' hats. (What is an egret? )
a small child
a type of food
a sound a tiger makes
a type of bird
After the harvest, we had an abundant amount of apples. We made apple pie, apple sauce, and apple juice because we had so many apples! (What does abundant probably mean? )
plentiful
not enough
very red
a shortage
The hill was too arduous for us to climb. We had to walk our bicycles up the hill. (What does arduous probably mean? )
tall, sharp
fun, exciting
easy, not challenging
difficult, steep
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