Vocabulary • Ch 12 - The Fault in Our Stars • Context Clues

The company plans to establish a new branch in the city.

 

What does the word 'establish' mean?

• Someone who tells a story or book

• Quitting or giving up a job willingly

• To create or start something officially

• To twist or bend out of shape

She would often indulge in luxurious spa treatments to relax and pamper herself.

 

What does the word 'indulge' mean?

• To let yourself have or do something

• Persuasive language used to influence others

• To make something confused or muddled

• Having unlimited power and control

The concept of time travel is a paradox because it raises logical contradictions.

 

What does the word 'paradox' mean?

• To make a decision and stick to it

• A sudden or unpredictable desire or idea

• Something that seems contradictory but is true

• Relating to the Earth or land

The astronauts explored the terrestrial landscape on their mission to Mars.

 

What does the word 'terrestrial' mean?

• Relating to the Earth or land

• To make something confused or muddled

• A sudden or unpredictable desire or idea

• Happening or existing in the present time

She claimed to have seen a ghostly apparition in the old abandoned house.

 

What does the word 'apparition' mean?

• A ghost or phantom that appears suddenly

• Summary or basic idea of something

• Quitting or giving up a job willingly

• To make a decision and stick to it