Context Clues Quiz

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Jonah sat down to do his math homework. He answered twelve questions. On the thirteenth question, he stopped. "I don't know how to calculate twenty minus fifteen" he told his mom.

• To figure out using math

• To give up

• To do something easily

• To solve a word problem

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Bobby watched his dad carry the old sink out of the house and bring the new one in. He knew that it must be heavy. "What's next?" he asked. "Next, we have to install the new sink" his dad said. "Do you want to help me set it up and get it working?"

• To purchase

• To put on hold

• To make ready to be used

• To build something

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Caitlyn's little brother was only three years old, and sometimes he didn't understand how things worked. He wanted to go to Mars. Caitlyn told him that it was impossible, but he kept asking her. "It can't be done" she told him.

• Unable to happen

• Easily done

• Difficult to do

• Fun to do

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Anne wanted to go the the lake for a picnic lunch. She asked her cousin Tom to take her. Tom told Anne that he couldn't go to the lake because he was grounded and his parents would not permit him to leave the house.

• In trouble

• Stay indoors

• Give permission

• Have a driver's license

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Ben was the 17th person in line to buy the newest video game. When the store manager announced that the store had 10 copies of the game left to sell, Ben knew that it was unlikely that he would get a copy.

• Certain

• Very Possible

• Probably will not happen

• Impossible

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage, what is the meaning of the underlined word?

Mark’s baking teacher had told him to glaze, or put a thin layer of shiny icing, on each donut. He was supposed to glaze the donuts one minute after they were finished cooking.

• to eat with icing

• to coat a dessert in

  chocolate

• to cover something with

  a thin, shiny coating

• to bake

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

After she had gone trick-or-treating on Halloween, Kelly made a huge pile of candy in her room. On Tuesday, she noticed that one piece was missing. On Wednesday, three

more pieces were missing. On Friday, seven pieces were missing. “My candy pile is decreasing in size!” she complained.

• getting bigger

• getting smaller

• moving around

• staying the same

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Maggie loved looking at her new globe. She decided to find China on it, but she didn’t see it on the side of the globe that was facing her. Maggie rotated the globe slowly and found China when it came around to face her.

• broke

• lifted

• crossed

• spun

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Michael had just fallen asleep in the car when he awoke with a sudden jolt. It caused him to bump his head on the window. “What happened?” he asked Zara, who was driving. “Why did you stop so quickly?”

• a way of speeding up

• a loud noise

• a sudden, jerking

  movement

• a car accident

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

Joey was a toddler who liked to blame things on his pet cat.

When Joey made a mess, he yelled, “Bad kitty!”

“Don’t scold the cat,” Joey’s mother said.

“You’re the one who spilled the cereal.”

• ignore

• hit

• speak in an angry way

• praise someone for doing something

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.RL.3.4