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Name : Syifa Inayati

NIM : G1B119023

Class : PSIK A

CONTEXT CLUES- PRACTICE EXERCISES

Exercise I

1. C. talkative
I know the answer is C, because from the sentence “I just freed my self” and from the
sentence “All he seemed to want was an audience”

2. A. tropical
I know it from the sentence “climate was appealing. The islanders seemed tokeep their
vitality and live longer than Europeans”

3. A. excess
I know it because the meaning of surfeit is excess and in sentence “of talent in one
individual” example as conductor, perfomer, writer, and lecturer.

4. A. native
I know it because the meaning of indigenous have the same meaning with native

5. C. 1000 years
I know the answer is C, because a millenium is a period of a thousand years

6. B. fear of foreigners
I know it because the meaning of xenophobia is the fear or hatred of that which is
preceived to be foreign

7. C. changes
I know it because from the sentence nothing remains the same, so the history has a
changes

8. D. banish
I know it because the meaning of mitiate has a good meaning such as banish, and in the
sentence, banish is suitable for suffering of the patient
9. B. inevitable
I know the answers is B, because the meaning of ineluctable fate has a same meaning
with inevitable

10. D. contaminate
I know it because from the sentence a combination of fog and industrial smoke, called
smog, has vitiated the air in and around the big cities. And the word “contaminate” has a
same meaning with vitiated.

Exercise II

1. Clear, smart, good


2. Noisy
3. Brash, insolent, evil
4. Vague
5. Relentless
6. Not sense, strange, impossible
7. Saturation, satiation, overfullness
8. Thin
9. Wise
10. Obscurity
11. Perfect
12. Sluggish, listless, flagging

CONTEXT CLUES

1. C. composite
I know the answer is C, because the composite is a synonime for combination

2. B. stress
I know it because if someone feel anxiety then the person will be feel stress and that is if
we look at the text with title What Are Dreams?

3. A. comforting
I know it because the meaning of disturbing is same with the meaning annoying and it is
a antonym of comforting

4. B. irregularly
I know it because from the question if something is consistent of course then it will make
happens irregularly
5. B. unable to mave
I know it because the paralysis is a loss of motor function in one or more muscles and it
can be unable to move

6. A. importance
I know it because the significance has the same meaning with importance

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