Using Context Clues for Unfamiliar Words

What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word? 

• Explanation
• Synonym
• Antonym
• Homonym

What do you call a word that has the same or similar meaning of another word? 

• antonym
• synonym
• homonym
• restatement

What type of context clue provides the reader with an example of the unknown word within the sentence or the surrounding sentences? 

• antonym
• example
• definition
• restatement

What type of context clue gives you the meaning of the unknown word in the same sentence or in one of the surrounding sentences? 

• antonym
• synonym
• example
• definition

What type of context clue is it when the writer provides clues within the sentence and surrounding sentences WITHOUT explaining it?

• synonym
• antonym
• example
• inference

When you are reading and come to an unknown word, what should you do first?

• Look for clues in the sentence
• Ask your teacher
• Look it up in the dictionary
• Skip it

Based on the context clues in the sentence below, ecstatic means:

They were ecstatic at the birth of their baby.  They couldn't stop smiling for days. 

• Nervous
• Discouraged
• Exciting
• Relieved

Based on the context clues in the passage below, eliminate means ________________.

Please eliminate the blank lines between the pictures.  They were not supposed to be there. 

• Color
• Add
• Find
• Delete

Based on context clues in the passage below, migrate means _____________.

Many Northern birds migrate for the winter.  They return in the spring.

• Lay eggs
• Eat
• Move away
• Sing

Read the passage below.  Which word or words best helps you understand the meaning of the word obedient?

The obedient child always followed her mother's requests.  That night, she brushed her teeth, folded her clothes, and went to bed before her mother had to come in and remind her.  

• Followed her mother's requests
• Folded her clothes
• Brushed her teeth
• That night