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“What does this word mean?”

“What does this word mean?”

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How to answer "What does this word mean?" in AEAS Reading (about one in six multiple-choice questions).

  1. 1Go to the word and read the sentence before it and the one after.
  2. 2Look for the clue: what happens around the word?
  3. 3Swap each option into the sentence. Only one makes sense.
  4. 4Choose the meaning that fits this text, not the dictionary's first meaning.
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