10th Grade Exam Review

Define Context Clues:

• Information the reader can get from the reading that helps show what a word means.
• Information the reader can get from the reading that does not help show what a word means

How many types of Context Clues do we have?

• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

With over $10,000 in scholarship money awarded, Christopher deserved all the adulation he received for his hard work, good grades, and volunteer work. What does ADULATION mean in this case?

• recognition
• friendliness
• high praise
• accolades

Although I was unable to understand all of the details of the presentation, I did get the gist of it. Using the context clue, the word gist in this sentence means:

• humor
• main point
• notes
• event

A prefix is the ....

• word base
• word beggining
• word ending

A suffix is the ....

• word base
• word beggining
• word ending

A root word is the ....

• word base
• word beggining
• word ending

-am means

• hear
• life
• circular
• liking

bio means

• hear
• life
• circular
• liking

non- means

• under
• before
• again
• not