Finding meanings using contextual clues

Believing to have superior importance or rights; overbearingly proud

• Arrogant

• Ambiguous

• Vicinity

• Eyesore

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

of great size, enormous

• dense

• murky

• vast

• resemble

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

to fashion (v.)

• to make

• to pile up; to build up

• to surround closely

Tags

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

walking in an awkward, typically of pain from an injury

• hobble

• fretful

• stout

• hackles

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The dictionary definition of a word

• denotation

• connotation

• shades of meaning

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Very great or intense

• Profound

• Defunct

• Obstinate

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

performed with little or no delay

• precision

• transgression

• prompt

• somber

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Exquisite

• of rare excellence or beauty

• difficult to perceive or pinpoint

• a cut or slice through something

• declared guilty

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

No word must ever leak out about this military action! It has to be a clandestine operation in order to succeed.

Which word has the same meaning as clandestine?

• family

• useful

• dangerous

• secret

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is the meaning of the word confidence?

• have strong hopes

• strong and sure feelings about yourself

• try very hard

• not scared and feel brave

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4