Using Prior knowledge and contextual Clues
Group One and Two
Using the following vocabulary words and write it in complete sentences. These words are the same words from yesterday's homework that you have to find the definition for.
1. Perplexity
2. Reassured
3. Anlage
4. Declivity
5. hypocrite
6. Prodigal
Group Three
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.
1. After a while the faces of the watching men lost their bemused perplexity and became hard and angry and resistant.
2. The driver was reassured. He knew at least that Joad was listening.
3. . . . sleeping life waited to be spread and dispersed, every seed armed with an appliance of dispersal, . . . all passive but armed with appliances of activity, still, but each possessed of the anlage of movement.
4. Joad speeded his pace against the sun, and he started down the declivity.
5. I figgered there just wasn't no hope for me. an' I was a damned ol' hypocrite. But I didn't mean to be.
6. Maybe Tom'll kill the fatted calf like for the prodigal in Scripture.
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