WordlyWise Lesson 9, Week 2

• Read the following sentences in order to

predict the definition of the missing word

using context clues.

• Highlight the clues that led you to that

definition.

WordlyWise 9, Week 2

Word Prediction

1. The __________ reason Dumbarton

hired a new __________ was that the

old one, Mrs. Fink, retired.

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Word Prediction

2. People always talk about

Superman, the man of steel, being

__________, but I think Wolverine is

just as unstoppable: with his

unbreakable, adamantium skeleton

and mutant healing factor, he can’t be

killed.

WordlyWise 9, Week 2

Word Prediction

3. Many Native American tribes were

___________; because they had to

follow the migrations of their primary

food sources to survive, they had no

permanent home.

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Word Prediction

4. Josef Stalin was a __________

dictator who killed thousands of his

own people in order to eliminate any

possible threat to his power.

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Word Prediction

5. When a man’s hairline begins to

__________ at a young age, it is

usually a pretty good sign that they will

eventually go bald.

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Word Prediction

6. Many pagan religions offered live

sacrifices in an attempt to __________

the wrath of their gods; without those

sacrifices, they believed that the gods

would become angry and inflict plague

or famine on the people.