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Difficulty: HardExample Context Clues

Match each bolded vocabulary term within its sentence context to its correct contextual definition, using the illustrative example clues provided in each scenario.

  • Flight operations officers waited for propitious meteorological conditions, such as cloudless skies, calm crosswinds under two knots, and unlimited runway visibility, before authorizing the rookie pilots' solo night sorties.Favorable, advantageous, and offering a high likelihood of success
  • The quartermaster decommissioned the depot's superannuated communications equipment, including vacuum-tube transceivers, hand-cranked teletype machines, and rotary switchboards that had remained in storage since the 1960s.Obsolete, outdated, or retired from active use due to advanced age
  • The safety inspector demanded punctilious adherence to munitions protocols, insisting on measures like measuring explosive standoff distances to the exact millimeter, verifying lot numbers against two separate ledgers, and recording inspection timestamps down to the second.Marked by extreme precision and meticulous attention to formal rules or details
  • Network engineers rushed to contain pernicious security threats, such as self-replicating ransomware payloads, covert keystroke loggers, and automated memory scrapers that silently compromised internal credentials.Causing insidious, widespread, and destructive harm

Answer

The target terms match their contextual definitions as follows: 'propitious' matches 'Favorable, advantageous, and offering a high likelihood of success'; 'superannuated' matches 'Obsolete, outdated, or retired from active use due to advanced age'; 'punctilious' matches 'Marked by extreme precision and meticulous attention to formal rules or details'; and 'pernicious' matches 'Causing insidious, widespread, and destructive harm'.
Each sentence uses explicit signal phrases ('such as', 'including', 'like') to introduce a series of concrete examples that directly describe the core meaning of the target word. Analyzing the shared qualities of the examples in each context directly yields the exact contextual definition for all four pairs.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Locate example signal words ('such as', 'including', 'like') in each sentence stem.
Identified the illustrative lists embedded within all four sentences.
Signal words introduce concrete instances that define the characteristics of the preceding target term.
2
Analyze the common attributes of the items in each example list.
List 1 shows favorable conditions; List 2 shows obsolete 1960s technology; List 3 shows millimeter-precise rule adherence; List 4 shows destructive malware strains.
Synthesizing the shared traits of the examples reveals the contextual meaning of the unfamiliar vocabulary word.
3
Pair each target sentence with the corresponding definition matching its synthesized example traits.
Established unambiguous 1-to-1 correspondences across all four items.
Verifies that no secondary or isolated dictionary meanings override the direct evidence supplied by the context.

Key Concept

Example Context Clues in Vocabulary Determination
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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