129k views
1 vote
Read the following sentence. She took a fancy to the beautiful diamond bracelet in the department-store window. To verify the meaning of the word “fancy” a reader could ________?

User BobMcGee
by
8.2k points

2 Answers

6 votes
Read the surrounding words and get context clues. But in this case it means to like something.
User Publicus
by
7.2k points
6 votes
A reader could use context clues and read the words around it to try to figure it out.
User Mariusz Nowak
by
7.7k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.