Match the bold word from each sentence on the left to its definition on the right. HANDOUT What do context clues questions look like on standardized tests?Ĭontext clues are usually tested using matching or multiple-choice questions. This handout includes the sample questions below in printable format and links to the printable and Google Slide organizers to go with the lesson video. With a little thought, students can determine the word sweltering means overly hot and humid.
The words cool, gentle breezes mean the opposite of sweltering. Students should quickly realize that this sentence contains contrasting statements. The sweltering weather was soon replaced with cool, gentle breezes.Īsk students to find clue words to help determine the meaning of the word sweltering. Students can infer that apprehensive means feeling anxiety about future events. Therefore, apprehensive means the opposite of no worries at all. In this contrasting context, no worries at all are clue words. Words like although, however, and not -this-but may signal contrast clues.ĭaniel was apprehensive about mountain climbing, but Sam had no worries at all. We have a huge architectural heritage to rescue, packed with history, over time, too many people have left, leaving behind a bunch of old, picturesque houses, many even dating back to the Renaissance.In contrast context clues, an antonym for the word is given in the text. I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. In it, resort management declares exactly what it’s looking for. On the resort’s website, there is a section specifically aimed at influencers. The stunning villas of the Hurawalhi Island Resort in the Maldives are as picturesque as any other. SILVER AIRWAYS PASSENGERS CATCH COUPLE HAVING SEX IN SEATS BEHIND THEM So common are deals being sought by travel bloggers that many luxury hotels have taken to outlining their criteria online. These people are expecting five to seven nights on average, all inclusive. People say, I want to come to the Maldives for 10 days and will do two posts on Instagram to like 2000 followers, it’s people with 600 Facebook friends saying, ‘Hi, I’m an influencer, I want to stay in your hotel for seven days.' Jones said she receives often very vague requests, and usually at least six each day. People have moved here thinking that it’s going to be picturesque, you do have to pay attention to the wildlife. When choosing the top family-friendly beaches, we consider a number of factors - it's not just beautiful sands and picturesque views. xlviii, 2 beautiful of aspect, of its kind. That is picturesque which would make a striking picture.Īwkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasantĪttractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, prettyīeautiful to the eye beautiful in appearance, in spirit "beautiful for situation," Ps. Comely denotes an aspect that is smooth, genial, and wholesome, with a certain fulness of contour and pleasing symmetry, tho falling short of the beautiful as, a comely matron. One who possesses vivacity, wit, good nature, or other pleasing qualities may be attractive without beauty. The word applies wholly to what is superficial we can say " fair, yet false." In a specific sense, fair has the sense of blond, as opposed to dark or brunette. Fair denotes what is bright, smooth, clear, and without blemish as, a fair face.
Handsome is a term far inferior to beautiful we may even say a handsome villain. That is handsome which is not only superficially pleasing, but well and harmoniously proportioned, with usually the added idea that it is made so by art, breeding, or training as, a handsome horse a handsome house. Pretty expresses in a far less degree that which is pleasing to a refined taste in objects comparatively small, slight, and dainty as, a pretty bonnet a pretty girl. Beautiful has the further limit of not transcending our powers of appreciation. But beautiful implies also, in concrete objects, softness of outline and delicacy of mold it is opposed to all that is hard and rugged, hence we say a beautiful woman, but not a beautiful man. Thus, we speak of a beautiful landscape, a beautiful poem. There must also be harmony and unity, and in human beings spiritual loveliness, to constitute an object or a person really beautiful.
The definition of beauty, "perfection of form," is a good key to the meaning of beautiful, if we understand "form" in its widest sense.
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