Vocabulary: Context Clues

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Definition of 'appalled':

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Disgusted

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Definition of 'frugal': Unlike my frugal mother, I don't shop at sales or clip coupons.

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Thrifty

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Definition of 'accolades': Received from parents for good grades.

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Praise

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Jorge decided to sever his friendship with his rude neighbor. Meaning of sever?

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separate

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The lost campers sweltered in the desert sun.

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burned

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Definition of 'deferred': Grace postponed her vacation to achieve more at work.

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Delayed

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Factors that make bees vulnerable allow diseases and pests to harm them. Vulnerable means able to be-

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hurt

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Mrs. Carlson's explanations were considered unfathomable.

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hard to understand

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Lindsey observed visitors at the Vietnam Memorial were quiet and reverential. Which word is not a synonym for 'reverential'?

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impolite

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Clue word similar to 'potential': stresses, possible, modified, suggested.

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possible