The Structure of Academic Text II

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

Such are the vicissitudes of history. Nothing remains the same. Three hundred years of peace ended in darkness and confusion.

• rules

• mistakes

• evils

• changes

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

• pretentious

• grouchy

• worried

• talkative

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

After the Romans left, a millennium and a half passed before people again lived in such comfort. Churchill wrote, “From the year 400 until the year 1900, no one had central heating, and very few had hot baths.”

• a century

• many years

• a decade

• 1000 years

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans.

• kind

• favourable

• tropical

• not malignant

Identify the kind of context clues used to derive the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence.

At his will, he turned fancies into facts

• Structure Clue

• Synonym

• Contrast

• Experience Clue

Identify the kind of context clues used to derive the meaning of the sentence.

The night was dark and stormy.

• Experience Clue

• Tone Clue

• None of the Choices

• Mood Clue

Identify the kind of context clues used to derive the meaning of the sentence.

“I’d rather stay here and wait than go into that dark room”.

• Tone Clue

• Synonym

• Mood Clue

• Experience Clue

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the desert. 

• alien

• necessary

• foreign

• native

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

A combination of fog and industrial smoke, called smog, has vitiated the air in and around many big cities.

• contaminate

• spoil

• concentrate

• replace

Choose the letter of the best meaning for the underlined word as it is used in context.

The purpose of the psychiatrist is to mitigate the suffering of the patient.

• increased

• banish

• make milder

• beautify