HELP ASAP WILL GIVE BRAINIIEST Read each sentence. Determine the meaning of the word using clues from the sentence or knowledge you already have. Then explain what it was that helped you find the
meaning of the word.
1. When Janet’s parents said she couldn’t go to the party, she got all melodramatic, began to
cry and accusing her parents of wanting her to be a social failure.
What does it mean?

2. Several days after Rory had already been blamed and punished for what Tom had done, Tom
began to feel his first, sharp pangs of remorse.
What does it mean?

3. Allen so often made jokes about things, and failed to take things seriously, that at first it was
hard for the others to believe that this time he was being earnest.
What does it mean?

4. Karen’s demeanor was such that only people who knew her really, really well could tell when
something was bothering her.
What does it mean?

5. The team rallied around their star player, even though now that his leg was broken, the
team’s chances of winning the championship were dismal.
What does it mean?

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Explanation:

it is sometimes not really clear what's the word in question.

1. when the parents forbade her to go to the party, she reacted only and with too much emotion, just negatively, giving that one event way too much importance compared to her life overall, accusing everybody else present but herself for being responsible for that perceived loss. she threw a fit, had a temper tantrum from crying to shouting and possibly even throwing things and not able to listen to anything anymore at that moment.

clues : crying, accusing. and well, I know the word.

2.

somebody else was blamed and even punished for something Tom had done. several days after that Tom began (at least during some short moments) to feel guilty about this outcome.

clues : Rory has been blamed and punished for something Tom had done. feel, sharp pangs. I knew that word too.

3.

I am really not sure, what the problem here is about. so, I try to rephrase the whole thing.

Allen never had a productive, solution oriented discussion with the others. instead, every topic, every subject matter was always transformed into jokes, and he made fun of everything. so, when HE finally had an issue that was important to him and that he wanted to talk about for real, it took the others a long time to see, that he really meant his words.

clues : jokes, takes things, hard to believe. and I know all these words.

4.

her attitude, her behavior was always in a way, that she showed a controlled and an essentially emotionless shell, outside facade to the other people, so that only people, who knew her very well (and knew how to recognize and interpret the little signs) could ever identify what was truly going on inside her.

clues: know her really well, tell when something was bothering her. I know all these words.

5.

now that the star player is really injured, he will not be able to play in the next games. so, they fear that without him their quality of game will go down. and with that their chances of winning. and so, their chances of winning the championship are now really, really bad and small.

clues: star player, broken leg, chances of winning. and I know all these words.

3

the capability of a bicycle makes some people want to go very fast and others to go very slow. as long as you are careful,

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