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Read the following sentence. She took a fancy to the beautiful diamond bracelet in the department-store window. To verify the meaning of the word “fancy” a reader could ________?

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User BobMcGee
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Read the surrounding words and get context clues. But in this case it means to like something.
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User Publicus
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A reader could use context clues and read the words around it to try to figure it out.
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User Mariusz Nowak
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