Grade 8_Context Clues (#1)

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

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Antonym or Contrast Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Cue

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

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Cause-and-Effect or Reason-Result Clue

• Inference or General Text Clue

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

• Definition or Statement Clue

• Comparison or Sameness Clue

• Inference or General Text Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Clue

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?

• Explanation or Example Clue

• Cause-and-Effect or Reason-Result Clue

• Comparison or Sameness Clue

• Synonym or Restatement Clue

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Alex was excited by the tremendous monster trucks at the show. They were bigger than he had ever seen. What does tremendous probably mean?

• very small

• brightly colored

• powerful

• very big

Janelle had a sore calf after the race. She rubbed her leg from the knee to the ankle. What does calf probably mean?

• toe

• hand

• muscle

• lower part of the leg

 

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

The successful man earned his millions through deceit and chicanery. Define chicanery.

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the red idiom. I didn't have any good options, and I felt like I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

• in a mountain

• with a soft pillow

• with two bad options

• with two good options

What does the word incognito mean in the sentence below?

The teacher preferred to go incognito​ in public, wearing baggy pants and

sunglasses in an effort to avoid students.​

• in a formal manner

• Concealing one's identity

• fashionably

• deliberately