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Assignment 1
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
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 on the lines
provided.
1. The unfortunate fact that the new third wife of the American millionaire was a
bad sailor had led to the subsequent putting up of the house and island for sale.
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2. "After all, people don't like a Coroner's Inquest, even if the Coroner did acquit
me of all blame!"
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3. Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment.
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4. There had been a time when he sat in his consulting room in Harley Street--and
waited--waited through the empty days for his venture to succeed or fail. . . .
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5. "There's a squall ahead. I can smell it."
"Maybe you're right," said Mr. Blore pacifically.
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6. Four voices gave assent--and then immediately afterwards gave quick
surreptitious glances at each other.
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7. Their guide led them to a small stone jetty. Alongside it a motor boat was lying.
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8. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the
nature of an apparition.
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9. "All doctors are damned fools. Harley Street ones are the worst of the lot." And
his mind dwelt malevolently on a recent interview he had had with a suave personage
in that very street.
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10. Rising, she pinned a cairngorm brooch at her neck, and went down to dinner.
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I.S. 239
Class _____ ID _____
Name ________________________
Date _________________________
Assignment 1
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
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 on the lines
provided.
1. Blore studied with naive surprise a statuette in brass--wondering perhaps if its
bizarre angularities were really supposed to be the female figure.
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2. You are charged with the following indictments:
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3. The mouth of the trumpet was against the wall, and Lombard, pushing it aside,
indicated where two or three small holes had been unobtrusively bored through the
wall.
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4. Mr. Justice Wargrave took charge of the proceedings. The room became an
impromptu court of law.
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5. "No, a colleague of mine was mentioned in the letter."
The judge said, "To give verisimilitude . . . Yes, and that colleague, I presume, was
momentarily out of touch with you?"
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6. "In passing sentence of death I concurred with the verdict."
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7. "Richmond was one of my officers. I sent him on a reconnaissance. He was killed."
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8. The manservant, Rogers, had been moistening his lips and twisting his hands. He
said now in a low deferential voice: "If I might just say a word, sir."
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9. "Miss Brady left us a legacy in recognition of our faithful services."
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10. There was silence in the room. Everyone was looking, covertly or openly, at Emily
Brent.
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I.S. 239
Class _____ ID _____
Name _____________________
Date ______________________
Assignment 1
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
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 on the lines
provided.
1. "You can call it choking of you like. He died of asphyxiation right enough."
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2. Together Armstrong and Lombard had carried the inert body of Anthony
Marston tohis bedroom and had laid him there covered over with a sheet.
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3. Any one could see with half an eye that the woman was as pious as could be--the
kind that was hand and glove with parsons.
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4. Cyril wasn't really strong. A puny child--no stamina. The kind of child, perhaps,
who wouldn't live to grow up. . . .
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5. As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.
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6. Ah! That was better. A young probationer was pulling off the handkerchief.
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7. General Macarthur and the judge had been pacing the terrace outside,
exchanging desultory comments on the political situation.
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8. As they went down the steep slope Blore said to Lombard in a ruminating voice:
"You know, it beats me--why that young fellow wanted to do himself in! I've been
worrying about it all night."
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9. Along the terrace, then down the slope toward the sea--obliquely--to the end of
the island where loose rocks went out into the water.
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