Context Clues

Give the meaning of the underlined word.

Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying and cooking something good, and the aroma of the food was wafted down to us form the windows of the big house.

• move lightly through air

• flew over

• move towards

Give the meaning of the underlined word.

He looked at my sisters, who had grown fat from laughing, then at my brothers, whose arms and legs were like the molave, which is the sturdiest tree in the Philippines.

• a kind of wood

• bark of a tree

• a kind of tree

Give the meaning of the underlined word.

One morning a policeman from the presidencia came to our house with a sealed paper.

• private security

• government

• military

Give the meaning of the underlined word.

The rich man arrived. He had grown old and feeble; his face was scarred with deep lines.

• stressed

• weak

• tired

Give the meaning of the underlined word.

Spectators came in and almost filled the courtroom.

• participants

• judges

• observers