Context Clues

Everyone thought Steven was a genius because he got a perfect score on all of his homework and test in school.

• brain

• idiot

• inability

• Smart person

In order to not impede the construction effort and to help the job get done quicker the town closed the road and kept people away.

• Tear Up

• Slow down

• Run into

• Talk about

Rebecca did not know what was behind the door her curiosity made her open the door to find out.

• Guessing

• Animal at the circus

• Desire to know something

• disinterest

The recipe called for only three ingredients : sugar, milk, and flour

• Type of food that goes into cooking or baking a dish

• Bacon, eggs, and cheese

• types of liquids

• name brands of food

Don't bring your drinks into the chemistry lab, you will contaminate the science experiments of the soda

• clean

• fix

• improve

• Make dirty

The principal need to curtail his speech to the school because it was almost 3:15 and the students needed to go home.

• Cut short

• Increase

• prolong

• strengthen

Jimmy was oblivious to his baby sister's crying because he had his headphones in and couldn't hear her

• obvious

• Unaware

• mindful

• concern

The chewing gum plummeted to the ground when he splat it out from the 5th floor window.

• ascend

• shoot up

• fell

• raise

Amelia licked the envelope and sealed it before sticking it in the mailbox.

• closed

• open

• animal

• wrote on it

The title of an essay should always be capitalized and go at the beginning of the essay.

• job description

• first letter

• Heading

• ending