Chapter 3 Vocabulary context clues

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs.”

• To fulfill or carry out

• An instrument, tool, or utensil

• To put into effect

• To fill out or supplement

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.”

• Formed

• Expressed

• Believed

• To begin

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones’s time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.”

• Lazy and unwilling to help others

• Innovative and exciting

• Not yielding to treatment

• Firmly or stubbornly adhering to one’s purpose or opinion

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“The reading and writing classes, however, were a great success. By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.”

• Knowledge of literature

• Able to read and write

• A person with a skill

• An educated person

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

“When they had by once got it by heart, the sheep developed a great liking for this maxim, and often as they lay in the field they would all start bleating, “Four legs good, two legs bad! Four legs good, two legs bad!”

• A similar sound

• A loud noise

• An upsetting event

• The utter and cry of an animal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

Boxer the horse was the animal who was admired by all because he worked all the time to better the farm.

• Someone who is lazy.

• with malice or hate.

• regard with respect or warm approval.

• a social butterfly.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

"Benjamin the donkey remained nostalgic about the good old days and was indifferent to the change."

• a feeling of euphoria characterized by onset dementia.

• a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

• A time where all was lost.

• to think only of the future.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word.

"Tiffany tells me I'm fat and is always making derogatory remarks about my appearance."

• showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

• To show nothing but admiration.

• to create a new light.

• To believe that someone is great.

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D