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Guided Practice 2
Directions: Identify the Types of Context Clues used in each sentence. Write your answers on your paper.
1. The mountain pass was a tortuous road, winding and twisting like a snake around the trees of the
mountainside.
a. Definition b. Example Clues c. Synonym Restatement Clue d. Antonym Clue

2. The children were as different as day and night. He was a lively conversationalist, but she was reserved
and taciturn.
a. Definition b. Example Clues c. Synonym Restatement Clue d. Antonym Clue

3. Celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, and stars, have fascinated man through the centuries.
a. Definition b. Example Clues c. Synonym Restatement Clue d. Antonym Clue

4. His emaciation, that is, his skeleton-like appearance, was frightening to see. “Skeleton-like appearance” is
the definition of “emaciation.”
a. Definition b. Example Clues c. Synonym Restatement Clue d. Antonym Clue

5. Flooded with spotlights – the focus of all attention – the new Miss America began her year-long reign.
She was the cynosure of all eyes for the rest of the evening.
a. Definition b. Example Clues c. Synonym Restatement Clue d. Antonym Clue

Independent Practice
Directions: Using Context Clues, choose the letter of the appropriate meaning of the underlined words in
each number. Write your answers on your paper.

1. And on his back the burden of the world.

a. back b. light c. world d. his
2. Who made him dead to rapture and despair?
a. dead b. cleaned c. delight d. despair
3. A thing that grieves not and that never hopes
a. never hopes b. never loved c. never see d. never saw
4. More fraught with danger to the universe
a. surprise b. danger c. fear d. death
5. O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands, is this the handiwork you give to God
a. heir b. widow c. rulers d. husband
6. What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
a. long reaches b. widow c. rulers d. husband
7. He wouldn’t allow the boy to be subject to any more bullying.
a. told b. exposed c. topic d. authority
8. The family went to the National Park so they could commune with nature.
a. travel to work b. live as a group c. exchange d. communicate
9. The microscope showed minute differences in the tissue samples.
a. brief b. tiny c. dancing d. 60 seconds
10. The lively puppy upset the table and broke all the dishes.
a. turned over b. worried c. jumped d. troubled