Improving Vocabulary with Word Parts and Context Clues Answers

Use your knowledge of context clues, word roots, and affixes to determine the meaning of the italicized words in this passage.

Which type of context clue helps define humanities?[___]

Regenerate: [___]

Various protuberances, such as rocks, bushes, and ledges, made it easier for the climber to get up the wall.[___]

I made a New Year’s resolution to be generous, but I gave in to avarice instead.[___]

The worst result of the hurricane was the inundation of water that flooded streets and basements.[___]

A stylus is a [___].

A(n) [___] clue shows the meaning of the word stylus.

The synonym that shows the meaning of deities is [___].

Regenerate: [___]

Dormancy: [___]

The [___] searched for artifacts in a field.

During the civil war, the country found itself in a state of near [___].

He was [___] when he learned that the director had given the role to another actor.

What is the most likely meaning of the word humanities?[___]

What is the most likely definition of the word cumbersome?

Context clues in the passage show that deities means [___].

Corpulent: [___]

I love being outdoors, so a day at the movies is [___] for me.

Oligarchy most likely means “a [___].”