Context Clues

Brea and Elizabeth are having a dispute over which radio station to play at work. It would be so much simpler if they both liked the same kind of music.

A dispute is a __________.

• musical instrument

• choice of music

• discovery

• disagreement

There are small yellow flowers growing in the field by the school. Please be careful not to trample the flowers as you walk across the field. Watch each step you take so the school can keep these pretty flowers safe.

What does the word trample mean in this paragraph?

• pick up

• jump over

• step on

• throw down

Amber took a cookie away from her little sister. She tried to conceal the cookie by putting it in her pocket. She did not want her mom to see it.

What is the meaning of the word conceal?

• hide

• take

• eat

• tease

Scott could not find his glasses anywhere. He worried that he might have thrown them away when he was cleaning his room. He began to rummage through the garbage hoping that he would find them.

What does the word rummage mean?

• search

• fight

• run

• smell

We are depleting the Earth's reserves of oil. Someday there will not be any left. 

• using up

• adding to

• creating

• saving up

I have a bad memory. I can't recall that mans name! Recall means...

• Forget

• Say 

• Remember

I fell in the marsh and my clothes were soaked. The word marsh means....

• Dry area

• Wet land 

• Backyard 

The parking lot was so congested, it took half an hour to get out.

• empty

• hot

• crowded