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What type of context clue?
Sometimes studying for math tests feels FUTILE, or useless, because my scores don't seem to get better.

• The Definition or an Example is given
• Synonym - a word that has a similar meaning
• Antonym - a word that has an opposite meaning
• Inference - you have to put clues together

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The lost campers sweltered in the heat of the desert sun.

• ate
• burned 
• slept 
• sunbathed

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Max's tonsil surgery ____________________ his social life when he came out of surgery sporting a long and hairy tail.

• effected
• affected

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I can't go to sleep because __________ are monsters hiding under my bed!

• there
• they're
• their

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Fill in the blank:  "The old girl is slightly_____________, Billy told himself."

• blemish
• dotty
• compelling
• puzzling

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"Indeed" means that a writer is going to further emphasize what he or she just said. "Indeed" is attached to the sentence that gives an even stronger example of a point than the sentence before.

My neighbor, Ms. Ramirez, is a little goofy. Indeed, she

• often lends me a hammer or wrench when I need it.
  
• insists on decorating her house with silly signs on Groundhog Day.
  
• sometimes lets her dog into our yard.
  
• usually comes home late.
  

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Tim and Tina have been learning English _______ six years.

• since
• for

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We wanted to spend the day at the beach; ________, it rained so we stayed home.

• nevertheless

• furthermore

• however

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I was so parched, I drank an entire glass of water in one gulp.

• hungry
• thirsty
• sleepy

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What does it mean for women to be in purdah?

• They are visiting the mountain region.

• They are in school.

• The are covered in public.

• They are doing something against the law.

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