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Because it had not rained for several months, there was a ...shortage................... of water.
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"Definition" Matches with " given an explanation of the unfamiliar word right in the sentence".
"Inference" matches with " Provides the general sense of an unfamiliar word with the main Idea of a sentence or paragraph"
"Synonym" matches with restates the unfamiliar word with another familiar word.
"Antonym" matches with contrasts the unfamiliar word with an opposite.
A boy is (herding) the buffalo in the rice field
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