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delicate skill; tact and cleverness; to accomplish something by cleverness, good judgement, or skillful evasion

• rehabilitate
• instill
• flaunt
• finesse

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TEKS.ELA.6.2B

TEKS.ELA.7.2B

Which word has a positive connotation?

• brainwash
• persuade

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TEKS.ELA.7.2B

It has been an extremely brutal summer with very hot temperatures.
What does brutal mean? 

• Harsh
• Windy
• Gentle
• Pleasant

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TEKS.ELA.7.2B

If you have trouble understanding a word in a passage or sentence of a story, you may want to read previous words or the end of the sentence to determine what the word means. What is this strategy known as?

• text messaging
• content origins
• context clues
• scanning

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"After the blizzard, Raymond made a schneeman, with two rocks for eyes, a carrot nose, and a skittle for a smile." Based on the context clues, what is a schneeman?

• A) skiing
• B) rabbit
• C) snowman
• D) snow

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Many people took advantage ___________ the low prices offered by the new shop.

• of
• for
• with
• to

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To compare is to show the _____________; to contrast is to show the __________________

• first; last
• differences; similarities
• cause; effect
• similarities; differences 

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Read the sentence, and then select the correct meaning from the four choices. Relish "lions clustered at a distance, eating with great relish whatever it was they had caught."

• delight

• hunger

• ferocity

• hurry

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Although some men are loquacious, others hardly talk at all.

• talk

• hardly

• men

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I _______ breakfast at 8 o’clock tomorrow, so don't call me.

• will eat

• eat

• eats

• am eating

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