Name: Sama Majed Date: 20 – 4 - 2020

VOCABULARY PREDICTION CHART

DIRECTIONS: Complete the Vocabulary Prediction Chart below. Refer to the given sentences
and use context to determine the meaning of the words.

1. When teenagers text, they use secret codes most parents cannot decipher.
2. The teenager jumped off the building because he thought he was invincible and unable to
get hurt.
3. Newfangled cell phone cameras have all put replaced the handheld Polaroids of the past.
4. The doctor used his ingenuity to perform a complicated surgery while on a deserted
island.
5. The comedian didn’t have a skit prepared, but his improvisation was just as funny as his
planned routines.

PREDICTED CONTEXTUAL
WORDS MEANING (before MEANING (after CLUE WORDS
reading) reading)

Decode or guess or To discover something Use secret codes

decipher understand hidden in a difficult way most parents
cannot
Strong or unbreakable Incapable of being Unable to get hurt
invincible
overcome or defeated
New Newly come into replaced the
existence or fashion handheld
newfangled
Polaroids of the
past.
Intelligence Used his Skills or to perform a
Cleverness complicated
ingenuity
surgery while on a
deserted island
producing something with making or doing The comedian
improvisation whatever is available at something not planned didn’t have a skit
s the time beforehand, using prepared
whatever can be found