Context and Text Meaning

The best strategy for dealing with an unknown Word is

• Look it up in a bilingual dictionary

• Ask your teacher

• Ask another person, a friend or your parents

• Try to guess what it means

Some reasons for guessing meaning from context are:

• It helps your concentration because you stay focused on the general sense.

• It helps build vocabulary because you propably remember the words.

• It demands you to know a lot of vocabulary.

• It requires a good usage of dictionary.

Where would you find the following words: Crops, soil, fertilizers, climate?

• In a text on Agriculture

• In a text on Criminology

• In a text on History of art

• In a text on English Grammar

My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.

• Dislikes intensely

• Eats eagerly

• Prepares and cooks

• Harvests and sells

All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.

• Necessary for

• Important to

• Symbolic of

• Unique to

Yet diversity among birds is not as striking as it is among mammals.

• Function

• Heredity

• Specialty

• Variety

What is the meaning of the word in blue text?
 
You must not be indiscriminate when you are shopping for shoes. Carefully consider which shoes will be best for you before making your purchase.

• indecisive
• careful

I meandered through the mall taking my time looking at all the clothes in the windows.

• hurried
• ran
• wandered
• jogged

Ms. Hawkins REPRIMANDED a student for throwing paper airplanes in class.

• scolded

• rewarded

• arrested

• seated

Based on the sentence, what does the blue word most likely mean?
In the movie Maleficent, a vengeful fairy curses an infant child. 

• harmful
• magical
• hated
• scary