Tag Archives: context clues

This context clues worksheet on the verb sandbag almost certainly results in a certain lack of judiciousness on my part when choosing which of Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Day merit or require worksheet treatment. In any case, this verb is used both transitively and intransitively.

In that worksheet’s context, sandbag means, as a transitive verb, sandbag to conceal or misrepresent one’s true potential, position, or intent, esp. in order to take advantage of; used intransitively, it means to hide the truth about oneself so as to gain an advantage over another. In other words, it means basically the same thing whether one uses it with a direct object of not.

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It’s a word we teachers bandy about enough that students have certainly heard it, perhaps even ad nauseum. This context clues worksheet on the noun rigor should help clear up its meaning for our students, and supply the corollary benefit of helping them understand just what it is we seek to do in the classroom.

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It was Merriam-Webster’s word of the day a while back, so I wrote this context clues worksheet on the verb regale. It is used both intransitively and transitively. I’m not sure high school students need to use it at all; if you think they do, or at least might, then it’s yours for the taking.

It means “to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies”  and “to give pleasure or amusement to <regaled us with tall tales>.”

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While it isn’t probably isn’t much used by high school students, this context clues worksheet on the adjective recalcitrant might serve to help students understand abstractions, if nothing else.

Then again, maybe high school students should learn this word and its uses.

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If you can use it, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun quirk. This is a common enough word that high school students should know it. Put another way, adolescence tends to be a time of personal quirks, so this is a useful, arguably vital, word for teenagers.

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Friday afternoon, and it feels like summer in Western Massachusetts. If you think your students should know the word and concept, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun purview.

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Since it’s a word in heavy use in English, this context clues worksheet on the adjective vague is probably overdue. This is a heavily used word, and a frequent concept in play, in the English language.

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While it isn’t much used anymore, this context clues worksheet on the verb vex goes some distance, I’d like to think, on demonstrating why this verb, used transitively only, apparently, remains a solid and useful word.

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Moving right along this morning (light now appears at about 5:30 am, which suits me just fine!), here is a context clues worksheet on the noun vestige. There are a number of uses for this across common branch domains; in any case, it is almost inarguably a word students should know, so that they can master the concept of vestiges.

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