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Context Clues Quiz

This document contains a context clues quiz with 10 sentences that have boldfaced vocabulary words. Students are asked to define each boldfaced word based on context clues in the sentences, and identify what type of context clue is used. The quiz tests words such as churlish, clandestine, conflagration, ecclesiastics, gregarious, inaudible, parsimonious, pedagogical, pertinacity, and vociferous. Students must analyze the sentences, deduce the meanings of the unknown words, and complete a table with the words, meanings, and context clue types used.

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Context Clues Quiz

This document contains a context clues quiz with 10 sentences that have boldfaced vocabulary words. Students are asked to define each boldfaced word based on context clues in the sentences, and identify what type of context clue is used. The quiz tests words such as churlish, clandestine, conflagration, ecclesiastics, gregarious, inaudible, parsimonious, pedagogical, pertinacity, and vociferous. Students must analyze the sentences, deduce the meanings of the unknown words, and complete a table with the words, meanings, and context clue types used.

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Lanao Chung Hua School

Context Clues Quiz

Name: _________________________________________Grade: __________Date: ________

I. Directions: Read the following sentences, and define the words in boldface based on the
context clue. Identify what type of context clue is used. Write your answers in the appropriate
columns.

1. Her daughter was churlish – rude, sullen, and absolutely ill-mannered.


2. Rather than holding a clandestine meeting, they did it quite openly.
3. The conflagration, aided by wind, was so destructive that every house in the area was
completely burned to the ground.
4. Ecclesiastics, such as priests, ministers, and pastors, should set models of behaviour for their
congregants.
5. Hailey is a gregarious girl because she has numerous friends.
6. You speak softly; thus your inaudible voice will fail to reach the people at the back.
7. The woman was so parsimonious that she deprived giving her own daughters the needed
amount they needed to buy pencils for school. It truly hurt her to part with her money.
8. Pedagogical institutions, including high schools, kindergartens, and colleges require
community support to function efficiently.
9. Jerome’s pertinacity, or stubbornness, is the cause of most of his trouble.
10. That boy who used to be very vociferous doesn’t talk much anymore.

Word Meaning Type of Context Clue


1. churlish

2. clandestine

3. conflagration

4. ecclesiastics

5. gregarious

6. inaudible

7. parsimonious

8. pedagogical

9. pertinacity

10. vociferous

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