Praxis 5362 Practice Question
A middle school ESL teacher is teaching a class of intermediate-proficiency-level ELs how to use different types of context clues to decipher the meaning of unknown words. The teacher asks the students to read the following sentence. Her grandfather is very loquacious， but her grandmother is very quiet and hardly talks at all. The sentence uses which of the following types of context clues?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The sentence provides a contrast between the grandfather, described as "loquacious," and the grandmother, who is "very quiet and hardly talks at all." This juxtaposition serves as an antonym context clue, indicating that "loquacious" means talkative.
Option A, example, is incorrect as no specific examples of loquaciousness are provided. Option B, explanation, is not applicable since the sentence does not explain the term. Option D, synonym, is also wrong; while "loquacious" implies talkativeness, it is contrasted with the grandmother's behavior rather than being directly defined by a synonym.
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