Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and
Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which
the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the
sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and
write
what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.
1. Like
valor's minion carved out his passage
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2.
Into the air, and what seemed corporal melted
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3. Like our strange garments, cleave
not to their mold
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4. I'll be myself the harbinger
and make joyful the hearing of my wife with your approach
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5. And chastise with the valor
of my tongue
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6. To beguile the time, look
like the time, bear welcome in your eye
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7. Upon
the sightless couriers of the air
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Part II: Determining the Meaning
You have tried to figure out the
meanings of the vocabulary words for Act I.
Now match the vocabulary words to
their dictionary definitions.
If there are words for which you
cannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and
by process of
elimination, look them up in a dictionary.
minion corporal
cleave harbinger
chastise beguile couriers
1. of or relating to the body
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2.
one that
indicates or foreshadows what is to come
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3. to punish
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4. to pass time pleasantly
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5. messengers
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6. to adhere, cling, or stick fast
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7. an obsequious follower or dependent
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