Vocabulary • Ch 9 - Animal Farm • Context Clues

She conducted a thorough investigation to determine the cause of the accident.

 

What does the word 'determine' mean?

• Comparing sizes or amounts in relation to each other

• To find out or decide something

• The burial of a dead person

• A formal speech given in public

She took a deep breath to calm her tempered emotions.

 

What does the word 'tempered' mean?

• To show or explain how something works

• To make something less extreme or intense

• Comparing sizes or amounts in relation to each other

• To say something out loud from memory

The professor will demonstrate the experiment to the students.

 

What does the word 'demonstrate' mean?

• To say something out loud from memory

• To find out or decide something

• To say or claim to be something

• To show or explain how something works

She did not profess her love for him until it was too late.

 

What does the word 'profess' mean?

• Feeling of strong dislike or disrespect

• To show or explain how something works

• To say or claim to be something

• To say something out loud from memory

They decided to take a spontaneous road trip without any prior planning.

 

What does the word 'spontaneous' mean?

• The burial of a dead person

• The way someone looks and acts

• Happening naturally, without planning or prompting

• To say something out loud from memory

She looked at him with contempt as he entered the courtroom.

 

What does the word 'contempt' mean?

• Happening naturally, without planning or prompting

• To show or explain how something works

• Feeling of strong dislike or disrespect

• A formal speech given in public

They held a private interment service for their loved one.

 

What does the word 'interment' mean?

• The burial of a dead person

• A formal speech given in public

• To show or explain how something works

• Happening naturally, without planning or prompting

Her calm and composed demeanor helped diffuse the tense situation.

 

What does the word 'demeanor' mean?

• To say or claim to be something

• To show or explain how something works

• The way someone looks and acts

• Comparing sizes or amounts in relation to each other

The amount of sugar in the recipe needs to be adjusted in proportion to the amount of flour used.

 

What does the word 'proportion' mean?

• Being involved and responsible for something bad

• To make something less extreme or intense

• To find out or decide something

• Comparing sizes or amounts in relation to each other

The police charged him with complicity in the crime.

 

What does the word 'complicity' mean?

• Being involved and responsible for something bad

• Comparing sizes or amounts in relation to each other

• To say or claim to be something

• To show or explain how something works