Open+Window+-+Clarify+Vocabulary+with+Context+Clues

The Open Window The Open Window - x **How to Clarify Vocabulary with Context Clues ** **Read the text ** **Find a clue ** **Analyze the clue ** **Replace unknown word with your guess ** **Check if it make sense with you guess ** The Text Says: //You wont speak to anyone down there. Your nerves will be worse than ever from //**// moping. //**

What does //**moping**// mean?


 * **Find Context Clues:** Look for word that might give you clues to the meaning.


 * **Analyze the Clues:** Use the clue to determine the meaning of the word.
 * Think what does it mean if he will not talk and his nerves will be worse.
 * Think //It does not mean he is happy. It must mean acting sad.//

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Replace the Word:** Change the unknown word to the word you think it means and decide if it makes sense with the rest of the story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Your nerves will be worse than ever from //**acting sad**//.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">The text says: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">He wondered whether Mrs. Sappleton was married or //**widowed**//.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Find Context Clues:** //married// or //**widowed**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Analyze the Clue:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Think - or, that word suggest an opposite. Married means has a husband, so //**widowed**// must mean no husband.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Replace the Word: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">//He wondered whether Mrs Sappleton was married or had **no husband**.// Does that make sense?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**no husband** is not the full meaning, but is close. It means her husband died. You can guess that by the rest of the story.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">The text says: //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">...Places that used to be safe to walk across were not safe. The marsh **gave way** suddenly without warning. //

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">The text says: //...left through the that window to go hunting. They never came back....Their bodies were never **recovered**.//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Find Context Clues:** //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Places that **used to be safe to walk across** //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">//**....**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;"> **Analyze the Clue:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Think - places safe to walk across..........**gave way;** it must mean broke causing them to fall into the marsh
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Replace the Word: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">//.//.. //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Places that **used to be safe to walk across** //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">//**....broke causing them to fall into the marsh**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Does your guess make sense?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Find Context Clues:** //**left, never came back, bodies...never**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;"> **Analyze the Clue:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Think - It says they **left** and **never came back.** **Bodies...never** what?
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Replace the Word: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">//...left through the that window to go hunting. They never came back....Their bodies were never **found**//.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Does that make sense?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">The text says: //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">..I almost get a creepy feeling that they will walk in through that window.... // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">She stopped with a little **shudder**. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Find Context Clues:** //I almost get a **creepy feeling....**//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;"> **Analyze the Clue:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Think - It says **creepy feeling**. That suggest ...........
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Replace the Word: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">//.// //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">..I almost get a creepy feeling that they will walk in through that window.... ////<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">She stopped with a little ****. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Does your guess make sense?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">romance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">coincidence <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.4px; text-align: left;">It was certainly an unfortunate coincidence that he should have paid his visit on this tragic anniversary.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">marsh
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">bog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">veracity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">infirmity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">imminent
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">rural
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">engulfed