D. look up the unfamiliar word in a dictionary to check its meaning.
Context clues will always provide hints with regard to helping readers figure out what a word or term means. However, after figuring out what a word means based upon context clues (which should only be considered the first step), what you should do is look up the word in question. This should be done so you could check your interpretation as well as help you commit the new word or term to memory.
Answer:
"The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world."
"Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner."
Explanation:
D because all the others are much more formal but with D it’s contrasted.
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