Context clues- The Red-Headed League

Fleet street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coaster's orange barrow.

What does the word choked mean?

• strangled

• restored

• hindered

• jammed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the redheads as well as for their maintenance.

What does propagation mean?

• extension

• publicity

• suppression

• distribution

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

It was pokey, little, shabby-genteel place, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.

Uncongenial means...

• relaxing

• hospitable

• unpleasant

• wicked

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

His brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.

What does the word unacquainted mean?

• aware

• mindful

• unfamiliar

• insensible

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbors, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.

What do you mean by oppressed here?

• pleased

• dejected

• tortured

• engaged

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When I flash a light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down.

Compunction means...

• conviction

• innocence

• assurance

• qualm

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The four pounds a week was a lure which must draw him, and was it to them who were playing for thousands?

here, lure means...

• repulse

• hoax

• bait

• illusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"it saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me! My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence. These little problems help me to do so."

ennui means...

• job

• excitement

• hallucinating

• boredom

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4