Vocabulary Skills Classwork

Combine the use of context clues with your knowledge of affixation and roots to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of the underline word.

Prefix ex- means "out" & root tenuare means "to make thin"

The fact that someone else "did it, too" is not an extenuation for wrongdoing.

• an omen

• a support

• an excuse

• a reason

Combine the use of context clues with your knowledge of affixation and roots to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of the underline word.

The three-year-old kept a tenacious grip on the toy.

• stubborn

• showy

• brief

• loose

Combine the use of context clues with your knowledge of affixation and roots to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of the underline word.

Eating peppers that are too hot will put even the heartiest pepper lover in the untenable position of having to ask for help without being able to speak.

• immoral

• uncomfortable

• nonchalant

• indefensible

Combine the use of context clues with your knowledge of affixation and roots to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of the underline word.

Hot peppers grow best in soil that retains moisture.

• support and helps

• holds and stores

• needs and lacks

• defends and maintains

Combine the use of context clues with your knowledge of affixation and roots to make intelligent guesses about the meaning of the underline word.

Prefix eu- means "good/well"

The news that she had won a million-dollar lottery filled her with euphoria.

• a feeling of great despair

• a feeling of great happiness

• a feeling of great support

• A feeling of great self-confidence