Week 16: Lesson 3: Warm-up Context Clues 1/15B and 1/2 AGL

Joanne’s mother came up to the school to get the cell phone the teacher had confiscated.

What is the meaning of the word confiscated in the sentence?

• giving something back

• taken or seized with authority.

• drive to a certain place

• crowding a room

Unlike her older brother Jerome, who stayed out all hours of the night, Kate obediently followed the curfew her parents set.

What is the meaning of the word obediently in the sentence?

• willingness to comply with an order or request

• go against or break the rules

• make something special

• make someone upset

John was so hungry that he consumed the cranberry muffin and went back for a donut.

What is the meaning of consumed in the sentence?

• throw away

• give something to someone

• eat, drink, or ingest

• making something delicious

After the bird escaped, Chris tried to coax it back into the cage with treats.

What is the meaning of coax in the sentence?

• forget about someone or something

• gently and persistently persuade someone or something to do something.

• give a gift

• let something go

Since it was a school day, Denise thought it was peculiar that she saw no children on the street during her drive to work.

What does the word peculiar mean in the sentence?

• strange or odd; unusual.

• special

• ignoring someone or something

• forgetting about something

If a wolf refuses to help its pack hunt, it becomes an outcast and must go on alone.

What does the word outcast mean in the sentence?

• loved

• rejected or cast out

• very special

• forgiving someone or something

Dad had no need for the broken air conditioner, so he discarded it on the corner by the trash.

What does the word discarded mean in the sentence?

• buy at a store

• forget about something or someone

• feeling happy or excited

• get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable

While others eat eggs, pancakes, and bacon for breakfast, Mike was content with a piece of toast and a glass of orange juice.

What is the meaning of content in the sentence?

• being satisfied or accepting something

• disliking someone or something

• forgetting something

• giving something away

Because he had such good friends and family, Malcolm considered himself fortunate.

What does the word fortunate mean in the sentence?

• unlucky

• disliking something

• having good luck or fortune; lucky

• feeling happy or excited

The teacher stopped the students after she observed them wrestling.

What is the meaning of observed in the sentence?

• forgetting about something

• ignoring someone

• watch someone or something carefully and attentively

• completing a task