Monday, August 22, 2011

Examples as Clues

The good thing about finding the meaning of NEW WORDS is that sometimes there are EXAMPLES within the sentence that are easy to spot.

Read the following sentence and try to find the meaning for the word debris

The debris in the stadium stands included numerous paper cups, ticket stubs, sandwich wrappings, and cigarrette butts.

What do you think the correct meaning for the debris is? ......

a. products             b. papers            c. trash

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