Question

While reading a story, you come across the following sentence: Although Mary was often unfriendly, she established rapport quickly with Jane. By contrasting the word rapport with the word unfriendly, you realize that rapport means "friendly relations." The skill you've just used is called        A. structural analysis.   B. context clues.   C. phonetic analysis.   D. dictionary skill.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B (context clues) because you are using the information provided in the entire excerpt to clarify a single aspect; more specifically, you must focus on the word "unfriendly" in order to realize that he word "rapport" means the opposite.

Answer 2

You would have used B. context clues. The reasoning for this is you have used other words in the sentence and around this word to help you figure the meaning.