Question

Directions: Read the sentence and determine the meaning of the word using clues or your prior knowledge. Then explain what clues in the sentence helped you determine the word meaning.

1. Confiscate: Joanne’s mother came up to the school to get the cell phone the teacher had confiscated.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




2. Obedient: Unlike her older brother Jerome, who stayed out all hours of the night, Kate obediently followed the curfew her parents set.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




3. Consume: John was so hungry that he consumed the cranberry muffin and went back for a donut.

Definition:
What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




4. Coax: After the bird escaped, Chris tried to coax it back into the cage with treats.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




5. Peculiar: Since it was a school day, Denise thought it was peculiar that she saw no children on the street during her drive to work.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?



6. Outcast: If a wolf refuses to help its pack hunt, it becomes an outcast and must go on alone.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




7. Discard: Dad had no need for the broken air conditioner, so he discarded it on the corner by the trash.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




8. Content: While others eat eggs, pancakes, and bacon for breakfast, Mike was content with a piece of toast and a glass of orange juice.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




9. Fortunate: Because he had such good friends and family, Malcolm considered himself fortunate.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?




10. Observe: The teacher stopped the students after she observed them wrestling.

Definition:

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

Answer 1

1. Steal for no reason just because they feel like they can

I got that from the mom coming to take her phone since her teacher sounds like Karen

2. Pushover following orders and probably stressed out try to not disappoint parents

I got that from the word ‘unlike’ and ‘curfew parents set’

3. Eat very quickly/almost inhumanly

The hungry and then talking about food it got pretty obvious

4. Kiss up to or bribe into

The mention on escape and then ‘cage’ ‘treats’

5. Weird or strange

‘Denise thought it’ ‘no children’ also common sense

6. Pushed away from or different

Because wolves travel in packs and it says that the wolves got petty and made him be alone and dats not good

7. Throw away

Talking about something broken then talking about it being by the trash can

8. Okay with something simple

Comparing mike with others

9. Lucky, great full/ not taking for granted

How they are talking about having good friends and family cause not many people have those

10. Watch/analyze/see

The teacher in the sentence stopping a fight after wrestling

Hope this helped u ;)

Answer 2

1. Confiscate: Joanne’s mother came up to the school to get the cell phone the teacher had confiscated.

Definition: Taken

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

Mother had to collect what was taken

2. Obedient: Unlike her older brother Jerome, who stayed out all hours of the night, Kate obediently followed the curfew her parents set.

Definition: follows directions

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

"Unlike her brother"... she followed her curfew

3. Consume: John was so hungry that he consumed the cranberry muffin and went back for a donut.

Definition: ate

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

When one is hungry they eat

4. Coax: After the bird escaped, Chris tried to coax it back into the cage with treats.

Definition: convince to follow

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

"coax it back into the cage" basically says he is trying to convince the bird to follow him to its cage

5. Peculiar: Since it was a school day, Denise thought it was peculiar that she saw no children on the street during her drive to work.

Definition: strange

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

no children on a school day=strange

6. Outcast: If a wolf refuses to help its pack hunt, it becomes an outcast and must go on alone.

Definition: forced to leave

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

"becomes an outcast and goes alone" so they are forced from the pack

7. Discard: Dad had no need for the broken air conditioner, so he discarded it on the corner by the trash.

Definition: got rid of

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

"discarded it on the corner by the trash" so he threw it away

8. Content: While others eat eggs, pancakes, and bacon for breakfast, Mike was content with a piece of toast and a glass of orange juice.

Definition: fine/happy with

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

others are extravagate but Mike is fine with toast

9. Fortunate: Because he had such good friends and family, Malcolm considered himself fortunate.

Definition: lucky

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

Good friends and family therefore he is lucky they aren't bad

10. Observe: The teacher stopped the students after she observed them wrestling.

Definition: watch

What clues in the sentence lead you to your definition?

caught them wrestling so she watches to make sure it wont happen again