Vocabulary Strategies

the amount of space that can be filled; ability or skill; office or role

• vast

• capacity

• duplicate

• keen

to shoot out quickly in a stream; to show a burst of energy

• spurt

• keen

• civilian

• withdraw

a person not in a military, police, or firefighting force

• keen

• vast

• civilian

• spurt

to annoy or make angry, stir up; to do something in order to get a response

• undoing

• provoke

• keen

• withdraw

to hide or keep secret, to place out of sight

• withdraw

• duplicate

• conceal

• vast

having a sharpened edge; quick and sharp in thought or in sight, hearing, or smell; eager

• conceal

• keen

• spurt

• capacity

to copy exactly; to produce something equal to

• duplicate

• withdraw

• conceal

• undoing

Which of the following is a strategy to improve vocabulary by using context clues?

• Guessing the meaning from surrounding text

• Memorizing dictionary definitions

• Ignoring unknown words

• Using a thesaurus

What is the term for a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word?

• Antonym

• Homonym

• Synonym

• Acronym

Which strategy involves breaking down a word into its root, prefix, and suffix to understand its meaning?

• Contextual analysis

• Morphological analysis

• Phonetic analysis

• Semantic analysis