Vocabulary Context Clues

Vocabulary Context Clues

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Let's Look at some examples​

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Multiple Choice

After years of avoiding the dentist and not brushing properly, Samuel's teeth began to decay.

decay means:

• whiten

• grow

• rot

Multiple Choice

The strange man runs around the town square singing loudly and waving a toilet plunger in the air. He is nutty as a fruitcake.

Here nutty as a fruitcake means:

• good at baking

• acting crazy

• incredibly smart

Multiple Choice

The mayor steps up to the podium and reads to the crowd assembled below.

• platform

• hole

• chair

Open Ended

The districts were punished by the Capitol for the uprising. Because they fought against the rule of the district, new, harsher laws were enforced.

What words in the two previous sentences help you what uprising means?

Open Ended

Read paragraph 3 on page 159. Which word could be a synonym for uprising?

Multiple Choice

In Ohio, it is mandatory that children attend school. If a child does not go to school, the parents could get in serious trouble. If something is mandatory,

it means you __.

• have to do it

• don't have to do it

• can pretend you don't know

• get to choose if yiu want to do it or not

Multiple Choice

The Capitol forces the districts to sacrifice two young people each year to fight to the death in the Hunger Games.

• celebrate

• hide

• give up

• train

Multiple Choice

It was so humiliating when he fell to the floor in the cafeteria in front of the whole middle school that he ran out of the room crying.

• funny

• embarrassing

• serious

• entertaining

Multiple Choice

The Capitol's requirement that the people watch young people fight and kill each other was torturous for each one of them.

If something is torturous, it causes ____.

• great joy

• no feelings at all

• people to throw a party

• great pain

Drag and Drop

As repentance for fighting against the Capitol, the districts must give up two of their young people each year to fight and die as a way to make up for rebelling.

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Which word or words mean the same as repentance?​ ​

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Placeholder

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

to make up for

fighting against

give up

to fight and die

Draw

Haymitch Abernathy is a paunchy, middle aged man whose belt struggle to hold his pants up on his big belly.

Draw a side view of Haymitch Abernathy.

Multiple Choice

Haymitch yelled something unintelligible and everyone looked confused.

This means ____

• Everyone heard him.

• No one cared about what he said.

• No one understood him.

• No one heard him.