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Read this passage from Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
Volumes have been written on the subject of the struggle between England and America. Men of all ranks have embarked in the controversy, from different motives, and with various designs; but all have been ineffectual, and the period of debate is closed...
I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary toward her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thriven upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
What is the best strategy you can use to clarify the concept of fallacious?
Reread the first sentence of the paragraph.
Read ahead to the examples given in the next sentence.
Reread the previous paragraph to find context clues.
Use context clues within the sentence itself.
Read this passage by Benjamin Franklin.
In this particular of salaries to the executive branch, I happen to differ; and, as my opinion may appear new and chimerical, it is only from a persuasion that it is right, and from a sense of duty, that I hazard it.
Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice: the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action, but when united in view of the same object, they, have in many minds the most violent effects.
What is the best strategy you can use to clarify the concept of avarice?
Reread paragraph 1 to find a synonym.
Reread paragraph 1 to find an example.
Read ahead to the next sentence to find a context clue.
Use context clues within the sentence itself.
Read this passage:
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men-both natives and foreigners.
Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.
He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
What is the best strategy you can use to clarify the concept of usurpations?
Read ahead in paragraph 1 to find a synonym for usurpation.
Reread the beginning of paragraph 1 to find an antonym for usurpation.
Read ahead to the last three sentences to find synonyms for the verb usurp.
Read ahead to the last three sentences find antonyms for the verb usurp.