Vocabulary Homework Assignment – Utilizing Context Clues
Chernowitz! Chapters 16-21
Chapters 22-27
1. Read the sentences under "new words". Each of the vocabulary terms is bold.
2. Write each bold word from the sentences in the "word" column.
3. Using the information in the sentences (the context), guess what each word means. Write the guess in the
"my guess" column for each word.
4. Look each word up in the dictionary. If your guess was correct/close, put a check mark in the "dictionary
definition" column to show that you got it on your own. If your guess is incorrect/not close, write the dictionary
definition in the "dictionary definition" column.
New Words:
Chapter 16-27
1. That’s probably going too far, but there’s a legal term I’ve heard of called “mental anguish” and I really had
a good share of that. (p.61)
2. He was really hot on winning, and I really wasn’t but I tried to accommodate him. (p.90)
3. Maybe it didn’t mean something so ominous to him, even though it was ominous and scary. (p. 93)
4. Calling somebody a name probably didn’t have significance for him, since he seemed to do it a lot.
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Directions: Write each word and tell whether it has positive, negative or neutral connotation.
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Anguish: _______________
Accommodate: _______________
Ominous: _______________
Significance: _______________
Directions: Now, make a picture dictionary for each of your vocabulary words. Fill in the chart with the
word, sentence (with a context clue), and a picture.
Word
Sentence
Picture