Vocabulary Strategies
Grade 5 - Grammar - Challenge Me
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Use context to choose the meaning of "telegraph": The museum displayed a telegraph that sent messages across long distances.
- a device for sending distant written signals
- carry from one place to another
- easy to carry
- watch over or direct
Which clue helps explain "telegraph"?
- messages across long distances
- so every group follows safety rules
- the same clouds arrived every afternoon
- when the water rose
Which strategy best helps with "predictable"?
- use the Greek root photo
- use context clues
- use the Latin root rupt
- use the prefix sub-
What does the word part "dis-" suggest?
- under
- apart or away
- before
- far
What should a reader check if a dictionary gives more than one meaning for "transport"?
- which meaning fits the sentence context
- which meaning is first every time
- which meaning has the fewest letters
- which meaning is longest
Use context to choose the meaning of "predictable": The weather pattern was predictable because the same clouds arrived every afternoon.
- a device for sending distant written signals
- watch over or direct
- easy to carry
- able to be known before it happens
Which clue helps explain "supervise"?
- from farms to the river market
- so every group follows safety rules
- when the water rose
- helped the historian study
Which strategy best helps with "supervise"?
- use Greek roots tele and graph
- use the prefix sub-
- use the prefix super-
- use the Greek root photo
What does the word part "trans-" suggest?
- apart or away
- able to be
- across
- over
What should a reader check if a dictionary gives more than one meaning for "predictable"?
- which meaning fits the sentence context
- which meaning has the fewest letters
- which meaning is first every time
- which meaning is longest