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Vocabulary Exercises: Exercise 2 - Guessing the meaning of words from context



Instructions: Read each passage and click on the correct choice. Scroll down if you do not see the Answer box. If wrong, try again. Click on the KEY PHRASES button to see important phrases. Remember that the words below are not real English words!

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This passage was adapted from Household Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt. London: George Bell,1884.
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