Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 1 AIL 0008 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Question Type Two: Word in Context
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The idea
The exam quotes a single word and asks what it most nearly means there. Sample question three quotes Sheridan's "grace" and the published answer is skill, not virtue and not prayer. The word's commonest meaning is regularly the wrong one.
In practice
Most nearly means, in this line.
Where people slip
The dictionary's first sense misleads.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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