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Context Clues

When you come to a word you do not know, hang in there. You can often figure out the
meaning of an unfamiliar word by using the words around it. The surrounding sentence or
paragraph is known as the context.
Context clues are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may be in a
sentence before or after the unfamiliar word. Because most of your vocabulary
is gained through reading, it is important that you be able to recognize and take
advantage of context clues.

See if you can figure out what these words, from Baloney (Henry P.) by Jon Scieszka, mean.

What I think the What I think the Information in the

Word word means without word means with the text that helped me
context clues context clues figure out the meaning

Aamu

Astrosus

Blassa

Buttuna

Cucalations

Deski

Fracasse
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Giadrams

Kuningas

Piksa

Pordo

Razzo

Sighing Flosser

Speelplaats

Szkola

Torakku

Twrf

Uyarak

Zerplatzen

Zimulis