Determining Word Meanings Using Context Clues

If you like someone but you wouldn't say they're your friend, you might describe your relationship as cordial.

What does the word cordial mean?

• warm and friendly

• flavorful

• hatrid

• greeting someone

Which is a strategy for teaching vocabulary?

• teaching students about 'word parts'

• teaching students about 'multiple meanings' for words

• teaching students to use context clues

• all of the above

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When the cat wants inside, he will paw at the door.

• An animal's foot

• To scratch or hit

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The campers made a fire to cook their hot dogs.

• Burning to produce heat, light, and flames

• Tell someone they lost a job

• Put into a kiln to make (pottery) hard

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The farmer added a final post to the fence.

• To list something for others to view

• To mail something

• A wooden pole

Choose the correct definition of the highlighted word:            He-Man had to track his math facts progress.

• A path

• To keep track of information

• A surface to run on

^{Choose the correct definition of the highlighted word:}The wolf pack attacked the zebra.

• To place clothing and belongings in a suitcase for a trip

• A group of animals

• To stuff

• A bag used to sling over the shoulders and carry books in

^{Choose the correct definition of the highlighted word:}  What's all that racket outside the window?

• noise

• a device used to hit a tennis ball

^{Choose the correct definition of the highlighted word:}  Skeletor put the clay into the mold to make a fossil.

• fungus

• a frame to change the shape of an object

What's the meaning of the red word as it is used in the sentence?
One year for summer vacation, my family took a long road trip around the United States.

• to fall over something

• a visit to another place