Question

B. With your own list of unfamiliar words, write down the ways that will help you understand

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Autodidact

2. Ominous

3. Hydrophobia

Explanation:

Unfamiliar words are words that are strange to us because we do no use them every day. In order to understand these words, we could use several methods such as

1. The context in which the word was used. For example, note how I could decode the meaning of autodidact from this sentence. "His independent quest for knowledge turned him into an autodidact". I can decode from this sentence that the unfamiliar word means that the subject or person being talked about is self-taught.

2. Through other examples. "The approaching mob created a weird, strange, and ominous feeling in the little children". The fact that I know the meaning of the other words gives me the idea that the word ominous should mean a strange feeling because something bad is about to happen.

3. Through the root and suffix. Hydro means water while phobia means fear. Therefore, hydrophobia would mean the fear of water.