Reading Solutions Review

Context Clue Review for EOC Reading SOL

By Mary Compson

Multiple Choice

The I in IDEAS stands for...

• Ideas

• Inference

• Idiom

• Interrogative

Multiple Choice

The D in IDEAS stands for...

• Definition

• Denotation

• Differentiation

• Delineation

Multiple Choice

The E in IDEAS stands for...

• Explanation

• Elegy

• Example

• Expression

Multiple Choice

The A in IDEAS stands for...

• Analogy

• Antithesis

• Allusion

• Antonym

Multiple Choice

The S in IDEAS stands for...

• Synthesis

• Synonym

• Simile

• Subject

Multiple Choice

What type of context clue is an EXAMPLE context clue?

• A clue that is available for the careful reader to make an educated guess at the meaning.

• A formal definition or sufficient explanation given within the sentence or in the following sentence.

• An example found near the new word that helps to explain its meaning

• An opposite meaning context clue that contrasts the meaning of an unfamiliar word with the meaning of a familiar term.

• An idea expressed in familiar words or phrases nearby.

Multiple Choice

What type of context clue is an INFERENCE context clue?

• A clue that is available for the careful reader to make an educated guess at the meaning.

• A formal definition or sufficient explanation given within the sentence or in the following sentence.

• An example found near the new word that helps to explain its meaning

• An opposite meaning context clue that contrasts the meaning of an unfamiliar word with the meaning of a familiar term.

• An idea expressed in familiar words or phrases nearby.

Multiple Choice

What type of context clue is a DEFINITION context clue?

• A clue that is available for the careful reader to make an educated guess at the meaning.

• A formal definition or sufficient explanation given within the sentence or in the following sentence.

• An example found near the new word that helps to explain its meaning

• An opposite meaning context clue that contrasts the meaning of an unfamiliar word with the meaning of a familiar term.

• An idea expressed in familiar words or phrases nearby.

Multiple Choice

What type of context clue is a SYNONYM context clue?

• A clue that is available for the careful reader to make an educated guess at the meaning.

• A formal definition or sufficient explanation given within the sentence or in the following sentence.

• An example found near the new word that helps to explain its meaning

• An opposite meaning context clue that contrasts the meaning of an unfamiliar word with the meaning of a familiar term.

• An idea expressed in familiar words or phrases nearby.

Multiple Choice

What type of context clue is an ANTONYM context clue?

• A clue that is available for the careful reader to make an educated guess at the meaning.

• A formal definition or sufficient explanation given within the sentence or in the following sentence.

• An example found near the new word that helps to explain its meaning

• An opposite meaning context clue that contrasts the meaning of an unfamiliar word with the meaning of a familiar term.

• An idea expressed in familiar words or phrases nearby.

Multiple Choice

The dudeen, a short-stemmed clay pipe, is found in Irish folk tales.

The reader can figure out that a dudeen is “a short-stemmed clay pipe.”

What type of context clue is represented in the sentences above?

• Inference

• Definition

• Example

• Antonym

• Synonym

Multiple Choice

Flooded with spotlights, the focus of all attention, the new Miss America began her year-long reign. She was the cynosure of all eyes for the rest of the evening.

The reader can figure out that cynosure means “the focus of all attention.”

What type of context clue is represented in the sentences above?

• Inference

• Definition

• Example

• Antonym

• Synonym

Multiple Choice

During those first bewildering weeks, the thoughts of a college freshman drift back to high school where he was “in,” knew everyone, and felt at home. A feeling of nostalgia sweeps over him.

We can figure out that nostalgia is a longing for the past.

What type of context clue is represented in the sentences above?

• Inference

• Definition

• Example

• Antonym

• Synonym

Multiple Choice

When the light brightens, the pupils of the eyes contract; however, when it grows darker, they dilate.

Contract here means to get smaller or close, so dilate must mean to grow larger or open.

What type of context clue is represented in the sentences above?

• Inference

• Definition

• Example

• Antonym

• Synonym

Multiple Choice

Piscatorial creatures, such as flounder, salmon, and trout, live in the coldest parts of the ocean.

The reader can figure out that piscatorial refers to fish.

What type of context clue is represented in the sentences above?

• Inference

• Definition

• Example

• Antonym

• Synonym

Multiple Choice

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

• pretentious

• grouchy

• talkative

• worried

Multiple Choice

There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans.

• tropical

• not malignant

• kind

• favorable

Multiple Choice

It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein simply does not have the time to make complete use of his talent as conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer.

• excess

• variety

• superiority

• lack

Multiple Choice

There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the desert. Many people in Arizona have made a good business of growing and selling cacti and other local plants.

• native

• necessary

• foreign

• alien

Multiple Choice

After the Romans left, a millennium and a half passed before people again lived in such comfort. Churchill wrote, “From the year 400 until the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.”

• a decade

• many years

• a thousand years

• a century

Multiple Choice

Many years before, Caesar’s men had tried and failed to invade Britain. No doubt this contributed to the xenophobia of the Romans. They were cautious about strangers who entered their country.

• honesty

• fear of foreigners

• kindliness

• stubbornness

Multiple Choice

Such are the vicissitudes of history. Nothing remains the same. Three hundred years of peace ended in darkness and confusion.

• evils

• mistakes

• changes

• rules

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the psychiatrist is to mitigate the suffering of the patient.

• make milder

• beautify

• increase

• banish

Multiple Choice

We knew he couldn’t hold out much longer because he had been doomed from the beginning. One night he met his ineluctable fate.

• forgotten

• inevitable

• hidden

• unhappy

Multiple Choice

A combination of fog and industrial smoke, called smog, has vitiated the air in and around many big cities.

• concentrate

• fill up

• replace

• contaminate