English Skills 3850                                                              

Topic: Vocabulary Development - Context Clues              Date: November 3, 2020.



Instruction: Choose the most appropriate word from the list below to complete each sentence. You can use a word ONLY ONCE.

Insolent                progress             account                  physical            determined

Institution            function              pronounce             cynic                  author              sincerely              council                citizen                simultaneously     haggard

I attended a prestigious __________________ for school.

The student was __________________ to finish school.

How do you ________________ your name?

Can you give an ________________ of what happened to Mary this morning?

The ______________ will take a vote at the meeting to be held this evening.

_________________ fitness is very important to your health.

The spoiled boy was behaving like an __________________ little child.

He is a __________________ because he didn’t believe the team could ever win.

We ___________________ ran into each other on the field.

She became a __________________ after taking an oath.

I _________________ want to graduate this year from school with my friends and make my parents proud.

Did you attend the after school __________________ to raise funds for needy students to receive internet access to do online school?

I do not __________________ very well in the morning.

The girl looked __________________ after a long day at school.

Mrs. Brooks is the ________________ of a best seller novel.

Instruction:  Complete the paragraph below using an appropriate word from the list below. Use the clue words in each sentence to help you in your selection of each word. Give the paragraph a title to capture the main idea of what it is about.

NOTEWELL: You may use a word MORE THAN ONCE.

WORDS:    Computations, familiar, logical, century, programmable, machine, automatically

TITLE:  ____________________________________

A computer is a ___________________ machine designed to __________________ carry out a sequence of arithmetic or _________________ operations. The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613, referring to a person who carried out calculations or _________________ and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle if the 20th _________________. From the end of the 19th ________________ the word began to take on a more __________________ meaning, a ________________ that carries out __________________.​