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An UPHILL battle
METAPHORIC - see the metaphor! (you are fighting somebody else, who is on the top of the hill, and you are down)
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“Will it be blessing or DAMNATION?”
CONTEXT - contrast, opposite meanings
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...will leave university with a DUAL qualification
COGNATES: look for similar words in other languages: DUE (IT), DOS (SP), DEUX (FR)
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...a degree course which PRECEEDS a course of professional training...
MORPHEMIC cues - Look for meaningful suffix/prefix: here: PREpaid, PREcook
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He plays the *KENTREL.
SYNTACTIC cues - *KENTREL is a noun object. (English uses “the” + instrument after certain verbs) ---> *KENTREL might be a ......
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banana
Go to last place!
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fairy
Take points!
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fairy
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banana
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BRUNCH, EDUTAINMENT
PHONEMIC cues - say it! See if it reminds you of something else!
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Shakespeare wrote plays, poems and SONNETS.
CONTEXT - words in series, PARALLEL meanings, similarity
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‘In the poor world people are killed by the conditions they live under, the SQUALOR and the lack of food and money,’
WORLD KNOWLEDGE - what might SQUALOR mean if you have seen images of people in poor countries?
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banana
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Double points!
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fairy
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thief
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