Vocabulary • Ch 6 - The Fault in Our Stars • Context Clues

The speaker used hand gestures to convey his message to the audience.

 

What does the word 'convey' mean?

• To tell things apart from each other

• To get someone to give a response

• To communicate or share information or feelings

• Something that exists only in the computer

She spent hours composing a beautiful piece of music.

 

What does the word 'compose' mean?

• To get someone to give a response

• To tell things apart from each other

• To communicate or share information or feelings

• To create or put together something artistic

The country launched a preemptive strike to prevent an imminent attack.

 

What does the word 'preemptive' mean?

• The end of the world or a great disaster

• To get someone to give a response

• Something that exists only in the computer

• Taking action before something happens

I expressed my sincerest condolence to her family during the funeral.

 

What does the word 'condolence' mean?

• To get someone to give a response

• Taking action before something happens

• Offering sympathy or comfort to someone

• Something that exists only in the computer

She had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.

 

What does the word 'premonition' mean?

• Taking action before something happens

• To stop something from happening

• Something that exists only in the computer

• A feeling or sense of something happening