Work on your vocab by tackling unfamiliar words: develop skills for infering meaning from features that might be familiar.
You're given a sentence with a tricky word highlighted. You then close in on its meaning by a process of elimination: familiar roots, context clues, the company it keeps. Every guess must be reasoned but quick: the game scores the quality of your detective work, not luck.
Vocabulary and inference: strategies for meeting a word you don't know and working out what it must mean. It's the skill that helps you grow your vocabulary as you widen your reading, the skill that's key to becoming an expert reader.
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