The document discusses different types of context clues that can be used to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words: - Examples: providing words that are similar or in the same category to the unfamiliar word - Definitions: directly defining the unfamiliar word - Synonyms: using a word with a similar meaning to the unfamiliar word - Antonyms: using a word with an opposite meaning to the unfamiliar word - Inference: using context clues around the unfamiliar word to infer its meaning It also provides examples of unfamiliar words used in contexts and their meanings determined through context clues.

1. Types of Context Clues

2. 
 Piscatorial creatures, such as flounder, salmon, and
trout, live in the coldest parts of the ocean.
 Unfamiliar Word: Piscatorial
 Type of text: by Examples
 Clue: such as flounder, salmon, and trout
 Meaning: fish
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

3. 
 Fluoroscopy, an examination with a fluoroscope, has
become a common practice.
 Unfamiliar Word: Fluoroscopy
 Type of text: by Definition
 Clue: an examination with a fluoroscope
 Meaning: an examination with a fluoroscope
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

4. 
 His emaciation, that’s his skeleton-like appearance,
was frightening to see.
 Unfamiliar Word: emaciation
 Type of text: by Definition
 Clue: that’s his skeleton-like appearance
 Meaning: the state of being abnormally thin and
weak from lack of nutrition or illness.
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

5. 
 Flooded with spotlight the new Miss Philippines
began her year-long reign. She was the cynosure or
the focus of all attention of all eyes for the rest of the
evening.
 Unfamiliar Word: cynosure
 Type of text: by Synonym
 Clue: the focus of all attention
 Meaning: the center of attraction
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

6. 
 When the light brightens, the pupils of the eyes
contract; however, when t grows darker, they dilate.
 Unfamiliar Word: dilate
 Type of text: Antonym
 Clue: contract
 Meaning: to become enlarged or widened
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

7. 
 The children were as different as day and night. He
was a lively conversationalist, but she was reserved
and taciturn.
 Unfamiliar Word: taciturn
 Type of text: by Antonym
 Clue: lively conversationalist,
 Meaning: reserved, silent
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

8. 
 She told her friend, “I am through with blind dates
forever. What a dull evening! I was bored every
minute. The conversation was absolutely vapid.
 Unfamiliar Word: vapid
 Type of text: by Inference
 Clue: “I am through with blind dates forever. What
a dull evening! I was bored every minute.
 Meaning: uninteresting
Direction: Identify the unfamiliar word,
type of text used, clues, and meaning.

9. 
 The purpose of the psychiatrist is to mitigate the
suffering of the patent.
 A. make milder
 B. beautify
 C. increase
 D. banish
Direction: Identify the meaning of the
unfamiliar word.

10. 
A combination of fog and industrial smoke, called
smog has vitiated the air in and around many big cities.
A. concentrate
 B. fill up
 C. replace
 D. contaminate
Direction: Identify the meaning of the
unfamiliar word.

11. 
 We knew he couldn’t hold out any longer, because
he had been doomed from the beginning. One night
he met his ineluctable fate.
 A. forgotten
 B. inevitable
 C. hidden
 D.unhappy
Direction: Identify the meaning of the
unfamiliar word.