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Vocabulary – Strategy: Using Context to Determine Meaning

1.

The word BAND has several meanings. In each sentence below indicate the word that could be replaced by BAND. The correct answers will turn blue when you click on them.

  1. Each musical group that wants to play at the festival must apply.
  2. Electricians don’t wear a wedding ring when working with electricity.
  3. Roshan lost a light fastened to a strip of cloth around his head.
  4. Wildlife officers stopped a crowd of angry campers from chasing a bear.
2.

The phrase TOOK OFF has several meanings. In each sentence below indicate the word that could be replaced by TOOK OFF. The correct answers will turn blue when you click on them.

  1. The bear escaped into the forest.
  2. Roshan removed his tool belt and put it in the truck.
  3. The insurance company deducted part of the value of Roshan’s tools.
  4. No one saw the robbery. The thief left quickly and quietly.