Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Starting out this already warm Wednesday morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective effusive. This is a useful, but to my ear little-used, word, which is too bad. It means, especially for the purposes of the context clues on this worksheet, “marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm.”

Maybe people just don’t effuse anymore. And that is too bad as well.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb disillusion; it’s used only transitively, so don’t forget your direct object: you must disillusion someone. This word means, simply, “to free from illusion” or “to cause to lose naive faith and trust,” which is the meaning the context in the sentences in these worksheets implies–so students should infer that.

Incidentally, I don’t know about you, but I have always been circumspect about disillusioning students. It seems like a big responsibility that should be accepted carefully.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.