Context Clues

Rather than be involved in clandestine meetings, they did everything quite openly.

What is the meaning of clandestine?

• loud

• secret

• sloppy

Ecclesiastics, such as priests, ministers, and pastors, should set models of behavior for their congregants.

What is the meaning of ecclesiastics?

• religious buildings

• book in the Bible

• priest or clergy member

The girl was churlish – rude, sullen and absolutely ill-mannered.

What is the meaning of the word churlish?

• polite

• rude

• stupid

Because the conflagration was aided by wind, it was so destructive that every building in the area was completely burned to the ground.

What is the meaning of conflagration?

• earthquake

• massive fire

• hurricane

When Meagan was the interim president of the garden club, she handled all the club business for the five months before a new president was elected.

What is the meaning of interim?

• temporary

• permanent

• unprofessional

I was so parched, I drank an entire glass of water in one gulp.

• hungry

• thirsty

• sleepy

Tanya loved her dad, but she wondered why she was so organized when he was so haphazard. A person who is haphazard is-

• lost

• lovable

• worried

• disorganized

Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

• can you help me

• her father walked in

• sounding annoyed, too

• relaxing with a magazine

In late 2006, apiarists in the U.S. began reporting that their honey bees were dying. Some of these beekeepers lost 90 percent of their hives. What is the best definition of apiarists?

• hives

• problems

• honeybees

• beekeepers

However, without a known cause or cure, CCD remains a conundrum. A conundrum is a-

• cost of food.

• known cause.

• puzzling problem.

• cure for a disease.