Context Clues Review

No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous.

• It is fuzzy and will bite you.

• It is everywhere.

• It costs too much money.

• It causes rashes.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Speaking rudely to the judges was rash behavior. You really hurt your chances of winning!

• An itchy skin condition.

• Funny

• Trying to hide or disguise something.

• With little thought or consideration.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

In the early 1600s, a dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean was a daunting idea. The Europeans, who would someday be known as the Pilgrims, must have been a very determined and brave group of settlers.

• tickling

• amusing and fun

• lost or misplaced

• frightening or intimidating

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Using IQ tests and MRI brain scans, researchers have found that the measurable intelligence of teenagers can rise and fall over time. We used to believe that intelligence was static. But now, because of new studies, we know that teens and even fully mature adults can grow more brain cells when needed.

• noise

• not changing

• clingy

• unreal

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Fortunately, the dizzy spell was transient. He was able to continue playing within seconds and had no trouble winning the match.

• sounding like a train

• quite harmful

• helping you win

• didn't last long

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

For the most part we are an intemperate people: we eat too much when we can, drink too much, indulge our senses too much.

• bossy

• lazy

• annoyingly loud

• lacking self control

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs — hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of.

• whirlwind or cyclone

• leafy branch of a tree

• clogged pipe

• a nest

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D