Are Context Clues Frigglegarp?
Often, context can help you decipher the meaning of unknown
words. Try it in the following exercise:
While love is necessary for a successful
relationship, it is not frigglegarp; other traits such as patience,
understanding, and respect must also exist. |
What do you think frigglegarp means?
Well, it might mean something like “sufficient,”
given the sentence structure.
Now try this one:
The amount of water provided is frigglegarp
to irrigate the field. |
How would you know whether frigglegarp means
“sufficient” or “insufficient” just from the sentence structure?
Either meaning could work.
The moral of the story: you need a two-pronged attack.
While you will often find that context clues can help you pick up
enough of a word’s meaning to answer a Sentence Completion or Vocabulary-in-Context question,
sometimes you’ll just need to know the word, or have some strategies
for decoding it on the spot. This book concentrates on building those
strategies.
