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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.
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
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
Yet diversity among birds is not as striking as it is among mammals.
Function
Heredity
Specialty
Variety
Ms. Hawkins REPRIMANDED a student for throwing paper airplanes in class.
scolded
rewarded
arrested
seated
Typewriters became obsolete with the development of personal computers.
popular
out-dated
careful
round
_____ is creating a picture in the readers mind by using words that appeal to the senses.
_______ produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of sight.
Type of imagery where it produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of hearing.
What do you call the type of imagery where it produced by the use of words that appeal to the actions and movement?
These are methods the author or writer of a literary piece used to convey what they want to impart to the reader.
It is where the events have taken place before the present time the narration is following.
Sometimes, a difficult word or phrase is explained in simpler language. Look for a synonym: a word or phrase that has the same meaning as the unknown word.
Read the following passage, then answer the question.
THe mayor's speech was bombastic. It was full of big words but had very little meaning. The town's citizens left the meeting more confused than ever.
Which word or phrase from the passage helps you figure out the meaning of the word "bombastic"?
"The mayor's"
"more confused than ever"
"full or big words but had very little meaning"
"citizens"
"Please eliminate the blank lines between the pictures. They were not supposed to be there."
Eliminate means to delete. What helps you understand what eliminate means?
"They were not supposed to be there."
"the blank lines"
"between the pictures"
Nothing helps
Read the passage below. Which word or words helps you understand the meaning of the word obedient?
"The obedient child always followed her mother's requests. That night, she brushed her teeth, folded her clothes, and went to bed before her mother had to come in and remind her."
"brushed her teeth"
"followed her mother's requests"
"that night"
"folded her clothes"
Based on context clues in the passage below, truncated means ________.
"I was upset that the ebook was truncated because I couldn't find out how the story ended."
"cut short"
"finished"
"overly long"
"boring
The parade will commence as soon as it stops raining.
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
end
start or begin
conclude
delay
That odor is repugnant! Is there a skunk around here?
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
lovely
disgusting
delicious
favorable
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