KE9 Keystone List 1 and Unit 1 Vocab

What is context?

• the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. The parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning.

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What are context clues?

• when the reader looks at adverbs first and then pronouns, etc

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

Guess the definition of "affix" based on the following:

prefixes (re-) root (un) suffix (-ion) = reunion

• The parts of words and how they are broken up consistently

• a reunion

Based on the following examples, guess the definition of "parts of speech"

example of a noun = school

example of a pronoun = they

example of a verb = run

example of an adverb = very

example of an adjective = green

example of a preposition= through

• the words in a sentence

• the function of different types of words

• school they are

What is "connotation" based on the context: The connotation of being ignorant is that it is bad and others dislike you for it.

• the dictionary definition

• the feelings associated with words

What is "denotation" based on the context: The denotation of ignorant is a lack of knowledge.

• the dictionary definition

• the feelings associated with a word

Which of the following are multiple meaning words?

• current and current

• desk and desk

What does it mean to be proactive?

• responding to events after they have already occurred

• creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.

What does it mean to be reactive?

• responding to events after they have already occurred

• creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.

What does it mean to be effective?

• understanding everything you do has a consequence

• successful in producing a desired or intended result