Context Clues

What type of context clue provides readers with varying examples to allow them to fully examine the unfamiliar word?

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Antonym or Contrast Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Clue

What is the comparing word or similar term to the underlined word in the following sentence?

Jonna is fond of mountain-escapades in the same way that Patrick loves to go on beach adventures.

What type of context clue provides the meaning of unfamiliar words that can be inferred or guessed from the description of the situation?

• cause and effect or reason-result clue

• inference or general text clue

• explanation or example clue

• definition or statement clue

I returned to school soon after the war was over. The entire place, where the school used to be, was in ______.

• opportunity

• devastation

• necessary

• destroyed

What type of context clue provides the synonyms of words to give the meaning of unfamiliar words?

• comparison clue

• definition or statement clue

• inference or general text clue

• synonym or restatement clue

The director felt remorse, or shame, for hiring some incompetent employees. What word from the sentence is a synonym for the underlined word, giving the definition?

• incompetent

• hiring

• shame

• director

We would be in a more permanent place once the buildings were rebuilt. The destruction was devastating, but despite the ____ around us, people went about picking up their lives.

• converse

• chaos

• world

• orderly

Jonathan is gregarious, unlike his shy brother. What word in the sentence gives the antonym of the underlined word?

As a country in the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines always experiences different natural calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis. What type of context clue is used in the sentence?

• synonym or restatement clue

• comparison or sameness clue

• cause and effect clue

• explanation or example clue

The voracious team members ate one pizza each after the swim meet. Define voracious.

• funny

• satisfied

• starving

• sleepy