Word Meaning Mini-Lesson

Word Meaning Mini-Lesson

By Faye Perkins

Word Meaning

​Mini-Lesson

A mini-lesson is a quick review of a priority standard that you shown mastery on and we want to keep practicing so that we won't lose our skills.

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How do you determine the meaning of unknown words?

​You use different kinds of context clues!!!

1. ​definitions

2. synonyms

3. antonyms

4. ​examples

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Multiple Choice

Read the following sentences from paragraph 8. Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals. The Woodhouses were first in consequence there. What can be inferred about the Woodhouses based on the phrase first in consequence?

• The Woodhouses settled Highbury.

• The Woodhouses governed Highbury.

• The Woodhouses were the largest family in Highbury

• The Woodhouses were the most important family in Highbury.

Multiple Choice

The history of the present King of Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations , all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. What is the meaning of the word usurpations as it is used in this paragraph?

• making objections to laws

• creating unnecessary regulations

• taking someone’s power or property by force

• taking someone’s ideas and passing them as his own

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from paragraph 2.

Such a pitiful beginning it was for their married life; they loved each other so, and they could not have the briefest respite ! What does the word respite mean as it is used in this sentence?

• a break from everyday worries

• a desire for love to conquer all

• a meal that would relax them

• a dislike of the outside world

Multiple Choice

All that day he stood at his lard machine, rocking unsteadily, his eyes closing in spite of him ; and he all but lost his place even so, for the foreman booted him twice to waken him.

What does the phrase his eyes closing in spite of him mean?

• It implies that he is ill.

• It describes that he is bored at work.

• It shows his efforts to fight exhaustion.

• It illustrates how he is pushed at work.

Multiple Choice

I turn the shell in my hand, gazing into the wide open door from which he made his exit. Had it become an encumbrance ? Why did he run away?

What does the word encumbrance mean as used in these sentences?

• a burden

• a disaster

• a desire

• a failure

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from paragraph 1 of the excerpt from Walden . To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating .

What does the word dissipating mean as it is used in this sentence?

• detesting

• diminishing

• oppressing

• pacifying

Multiple Choice

Take a deep breath. Even if the air looks clear, it’s nearly certain that you’ll inhale tens of millions of solid particles and liquid droplets. These ubiquitous specks of matter are known as aerosols, and they can be found in the air over oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, ice, and every ecosystem in between.

What does ubiquitous mean in paragraph 1?

• universal

• undesirable

• polluted

• complex