Vocabulary Skills

Vocabulary Skills

When you don't know the meaning of a word...

You can use background knowledge, grammatical knowledge, and context clues to help you determine the meaning of words.

Identify the part of speech:

• Nouns: A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

• Verbs: A word that names an action or a state of being.

• Adjectives: Words that describe a noun

Multiple Select

Identify the nouns in the list.

• car

• run

• fast

• love

• bake

Multiple Select

Identify the verbs in the following list.

• black

• donkey

• walk

• fast

• sit

Multiple Select

Identify the adjectives in the following list.

• frightening

• shatter

• cake

• mighty

• grow

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined part of speech.

Jerry's mom baked a delicious chocolate cake.

• verb

• noun

• adjective

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined part of speech.

Jerry's mom baked a delicious chocolate cake.

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined part of speech.

Jerry's mom baked a delicious chocolate cake.

• adjective

• noun

• verb

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the words.

• Use background knowledge

• Use information from the passage

• Determine if the word has a synonym or antonym

• Con+text. Con is a prefix meaning "with". Text is the written words. Use clues within the written words to determine the meaning of new or unfamiliar words.

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence. Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

Lisa reminisced and smiled as she looked at the photographs of her with her family at last year's fair.

• became angry

• happily remembered

• cried

• became sick

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence. Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

After finishing a strict, low-carb diet, Mark indulged freely on the pastries he'd craved for weeks.

• remained

• kept up his diet

• gave in

• counted

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence. Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

All aboard the damaged ship were in grave danger of drowning.

• a burial spot

• no

• Significant or serious

• little