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WorksheetsContext Clues
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What are context clues?
Clues that help you figure out the context.
Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery
A verbal formula giving an indication as to what is to be inserted in a particular space in a crossword or other puzzle.
When you are reading and come to an unknown word, what should you do first?
Look for clues in the text
Skip it and keep reading
Look it up in a dictionary
Ask the teacher what it means
What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?
a homonym
a synonym
an antonym
an explanation
We could tell by the rotten smell that something putrid was in our trash can.
alive
rotten
ample
appealing
Janice thought the man was friendly, but Casey thought he was malicious.
spiteful
friendly
sweet
kind
The director felt remorse, or shame, for hiring some incompetent employees.
What other words from the sentence that give synonyms to the underlined word?
director
shame
hiring
incompetent
Alex was excited by the tremendous monster trucks at the show. They were bigger than he had ever seen.
What does tremendous probably mean?
powerful
very small
very big
brightly colored
We thought that Ms. MacNaugten would be very DISTRAUGHT when told that someone hacked the yearbook site; however, she took the news very calmly. What does the word DISTRAUGHT mean?
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anxious
upset
happy
fearful
