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Question

A student is trying to understand the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a paragraph. The paragraph does not contain any examples of figurative language, and the student has already identified the unfamiliar word as a noun.

Which strategy would work best in order for the student to define the word?

a. identify idioms.
b. examine sentence logic.
c. look for context clues.
d. determine the part of speech

Answer 1

c. look for context clues.