Finding meanings using contextual clues

What is a "skein"?

• A loop of yarn or thread

• Something made to meet a need

• Spending too much money

• Something that is messy or shabby

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to summon or call forth

• evoke

• antiquity

• cosmopolitan

• indolent

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Willy opened the _ that Grandfather kept in the corner of his room under the wooden boards in the floor.

• strongbox

• educated

• ceiling

• concerned

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

3.RI.4
"And best of all, she had a brand new purple plastic purse that played jaunty tune when it was open".
What does jaunty mean in the sentence?

• depressing
• lively / up beat
• rap music
• lonely

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Distant physically or emotionally.

• aloof

• base

• carnal

• perdition

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

be involved; follow

• pursue

• inevitably

• chaotic

• inscribed

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the meaning of warily?

• To hold truth to a meaning

• So show lack of trust

• To have no knowledge of anything

• To act in a harmful way

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

Mattie's _____ was a carpenter.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Bourgeois

• A characteristic of a person which is middle class

• a characteristic of a person which is upper class

• Group of middle class people

• Group of upper class people

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"...for the last five weeks the Lords have been helping clean the streets to show the people that the system does not serve them.'"

Given the context what does the word serve mean?

• to provide with a regular or continuous supply of something.

• to contribute to; promote:

• to be useful or of service to; help.

• to operate or keep in action

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4