SKILL 9: DETERMINE MEANINGS FROM WORD PARTS

This skill explain us that sometimes  is possible to determine the meaning of  a long word  by studying the word parts.

     Example: 

Ring Lardner was born into a wealthy, educated, and cultured family.  For the bulk of his career, he worked as a reporter for newspapers in South Bend, Boston, St. Louis, and Chicago. However, it is for his short stories of lower middle-class Americans that Ring Lardner is perhaps best known. In these stories, Lardner vividly creates the language and the ambiance of this lower class, often using the misspelled words, grammatical errors, and incorrect diction that typified the language of the lower middle class.

The word “vividly” in line 5 is closest in meaning to

(A)   in a cultured way

(B)   in a correct way

(C)   in a lifelike way

(D)   in a brief way

As we can see through this example, we can figure out that the question is directed to the meaning of the word and you should notice that the word vividly contains the word part viv- ( It means life), therfore the correct answer to this question is letter C.

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