Context Clues Vocabulary

an educated guess that is made based on clues combined with the reader's own experiences; read between the lines; hidden meaning.

• Inference

• Schema

• Textual Evidence

A word that means the opposite of another word.

• Antonym

• Synonym

• Observe

Background knowledge and prior knowledge.

• Schema

• Context Clues

• Elaborate

The exact words from an author or a speaker.

• Textual Evidence

• Elaborate

• Quotation

Specific information from a text that supports the inference.

• Quotation

• Textual Evidence

• Inference

To look at something closely.

• Observe

• Elaborate

• Inference

Clues that readers use to determine an unknown word or phrase.

• Context Clues

• Synonym

• Inference

A word that means the same or nearly the same thing as another word.

• Synonym

• Context Clues

• Antonym

To add details to something, to explain more fully.

• Schema

• Elaborate

• Observe