Wordly Wise Book 6 Lesson 9 Context Clues 1

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

As the vapor cools, it forms water droplets that eventually fall as rain. The rainfall accumulates in Earth's different bodies of water.

• To increase in number or amount; to pile up; collect, or gather

• To make worse; to anger or annoy

• To save by using carefully

• To harm by contact with something undesirable

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

We have aggravated the problem by allowing chemical pesticides and fertilizers used on crops to run off into our water supplies.

• To increase in number or amount; to pile up; collect, or gather

• To make worse; to anger or annoy

• To save by using carefully

• To harm by contact with something undesirable

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

We have to learn to conserve this precious liquid as though our lives depend on it - because they do.

• To increase in number or amount; to pile up; collect, or gather

• To make worse; to anger or annoy

• To save by using carefully

• To harm by contact with something undesirable

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

In our eagerness to make what we call progress, we have contaminated our rivers, oceans, and lakes by emptying the raw sewage from our toilets into them.

• To increase in number or amount; to pile up; collect, or gather

• To make worse; to anger or annoy

• To save by using carefully

• To harm by contact with something undesirable

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

We have also dumped poisonous chemicals into landfills so that in many places the water lying under the ground imperils the health of those who eventually drink it. As a result, the amount of clean water is diminishing.

• To make or become smaller or less; to reduce

• Severe; extreme; major

• Spending, costing, or using more than is required

• Careful in spending or using something

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

With the growth of industry and the increase in population over the past two hundred years, the situation has changed drastically.

• To make or become smaller or less; to reduce

• Severe; extreme; major

• Spending, costing, or using more than is required

• Careful in spending or using something

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

An extravagant person is sometimes said to "spend money like water."

• To make or become smaller or less; to reduce

• Severe; extreme; major

• Spending, costing, or using more than is required

• Careful in spending or using something

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Use context clues to match the underlined word with the correct definition:

Now, however, the time has come for us to learn to be frugal and spend our water as carefully as a penny pincher spends money.

• To make or become smaller or less; to reduce

• Severe; extreme; major

• Spending, costing, or using more than is required

• Careful in spending or using something

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4