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Context Clues:Context Clues: DefinitionalDefinitional
A writer sometimes uses definitional context clues to help with hard words. When using definitional
context clues, the author includes a definition to help the reader
understand the meaning of a word.
Context Clues:Context Clues: DefinitionalDefinitional
Let’s Look at an Example:
The people of the town were warned not to eat the tainted fish. The local newspaper published a bulletin in which readers were clearly told that eating fish that had a disease could be very dangerous. This was especially true for fish caught in Lake Jean.
What does the word tainted mean in this sentence?
The people of the town were warned not to eat the tainted fish. The local newspaper published a bulletin in which readers were clearly told that eating fish that had a disease could be very dangerous. This was especially true for fish caught in Lake Jean.
Context Clues:Context Clues: DefinitionalDefinitional "tainted" is
defined as having a disease.
Context Clues:Context Clues: SynonymsSynonyms
A writer sometimes uses synonym context clues to help with hard
words. A synonym context clue is one or two words that mean almost the same as the one that the author
does not expect us to know.
Context Clues:Context Clues: SynonymsSynonyms
Let’s Look at an Example:
What does the word aloof mean in this sentence?
The young girl was very . She always seemed unsociable,
unapproachable, and uninterested.
aloof
unsociable, unapproachable, and uninterested.
Context Clues:Context Clues: SynonymsSynonyms
The young girl was very aloof. She always seemed
All three of these words
are synonyms to help us with the original word aloof
Context Clues:Context Clues: Antonyms Antonyms
A writer is using antonym context clues when they use a word with opposite meaning to give us hints
about the word that they don’t think we will know.
Context Clues:Context Clues: Antonyms Antonyms
Let’s Look at an Example:
Dianna appeared to be a very moral and upstanding young lady, but those who knew her knew that she was iniquitous.
What does the word iniquitous mean in this sentence?
Dianna appeared to be a very moral and upstanding young lady, those who knew her knew that she was iniquitous.
Context Clues:Context Clues: Antonyms Antonyms
but
The word BUT tells us that the two parts of the
sentence represent
opposite points of view about
Dianna
There is a special word in There is a special word in this sentence that hints at this sentence that hints at
the presence of an the presence of an antonymantonym..
Context Clues:Context Clues: Antonyms Antonyms
Dianna appeared to be a very
young lady, but those who knew her knew that she was
The two opposite points of view are:
1. That Dianna is moral and upstanding.
2. That she is iniquitous
moral and upstanding
iniquitous.
Iniquitous must mean
evil and immoral
Context Clues:Context Clues: ExampleExample
Using examples or illustrations, an author tries to show what a word means. A writer may give just one
example or several. Remember that these are examples not synonyms.
Context Clues:Context Clues: ExampleExample
Let’s Look at an Example:
What does the word noxious mean in this sentence?
The river was full of noxious materials such as cleaning agents from factories and pesticides from the nearby farms.
The river was full of noxious materials such as cleaning agents from factories and pesticides from the nearby farms.
Context Clues:Context Clues: Example Example
The words such as signal that an example is being used as a context
clue.
There are special words in There are special words in this sentence that hint at this sentence that hint at
the presence of an the presence of an exampleexample..
Context Clues:Context Clues: Example Example
The river was full of noxious materials such as cleaning agents from factories and pesticides from the nearby farms.
The two examples of noxious are:
1. cleaning agents
2. pesticides
