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Guessing Meaning From Context

This document discusses strategies for guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words from context. It provides examples of signal words that can help indicate a word's meaning, such as definition words like "is", restatement words like "that is", example words like "for example", comparison words like "although", and cause/effect words like "because" and "therefore". The document also lists sample sentences that demonstrate using context clues and signal words to deduce a word's meaning.

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Guessing Meaning From Context

This document discusses strategies for guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words from context. It provides examples of signal words that can help indicate a word's meaning, such as definition words like "is", restatement words like "that is", example words like "for example", comparison words like "although", and cause/effect words like "because" and "therefore". The document also lists sample sentences that demonstrate using context clues and signal words to deduce a word's meaning.

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Guessing the

meaning from
context
By
Porntip Bodeepongse
Read and guess the meaning.
The people in the neighbourhood
called Tom a loafer because he
always wasted his time by not
working when he should.
a loafer = a lazy person

How to guess:
Read the sentence carefully.
Try using the context to help you
guess.
Look for a signal word and guess
the meaning.
Make sure that the meaning is the
same part of speech as the word.
Unfamiliar word+ signal word + meaning


Meaning+ signal word + unfamiliar word
1. Definition
Inflation is a rise in the general
level of prices you pay for things
you buy.

Someone who explores and studies
caves is known as a spelunker.
2. Restatement
Spontaneously, that is, without
planning, the students lifted the
teacher onto their shoulders.

Mrs Miller loved the tranquillity
the peace and quietness after
everybody had gone to work.
3. Example
Some people in the North of Thailand
do wickerwork, for example, they
make elephants, turtles, plates, beds
and chairs from teak trees for
earning money.
She is very touchy. For example, she
usually gets angry when her teacher
makes comments on her paper.
4. Comparison and contrast
Although Dara and Wipa are very
close friends,they are very different.
Dara spends a lot of money to buy
things while Wipa loves to economize.
The moans of the winds on a winter
evening seem like the sounds of a sad
girl crying.
5. Cause and effect
Suda got drenched during the rainstorm
because she left her umbrella at her
office.
The little boy had wanted a bicycle very
much. Therefore, he was ecstatic when
he got it on his birthday.
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Thank you ;-).

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