Context Clues
- Exercise 3 Script -
Directions: The following sentences each contain a nonsense word. Use the context
clues in each sentence to determine the meaning of these words.
1. Your testimony will be considered frumple to the case only if the evidence you
offer is directly related to the crime.
(Definition: relevant, related.)
2. At the last minute, the governor yoppened the prisoner’s death sentence to a term
of life in prison.
(Definition: commuted, converted.)
3. Oranges are unmapor to Florida but foreign to Maine.
(Definition: native.)
4. I don’t believe that our tax laws should benefit the krindrils more than the poor or
the middle class. All classes of people should be treated the same.
(Definition: wealthy.)
5. My neighbor doesn’t think it’s raunshul for children to call adults by their first
names.
(Definition: appropriate.)
6. Sometimes onspy racism is easier to deal with than hidden racism. You can better
fight what is out in the open.
(Definition: overt, obvious.)
7. Winning the Nobel Prize can make a little-known scientist into a chonsey world
figure.
(Definition: reknowned.)
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