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P6 English Vocabulary List 2019

P6 English Vocabulary 2019: Context Clues and Meaning-in-Passage Practice

This page preserves the historical Raffles Girls Primary 6 SA2 2019 word bank but gives it one clear job: teach learners how to infer vocabulary from context before checking a definition.

This is an eduKate learning resource, not an official MOE or SEAB prescribed vocabulary list.

The Historical 32-Word Bank

quiver, plains, antelope, crept, might, laced, potent, substance, bout, midday, startled, achievement, behaviour, modesty, heaved, indifferently, insult, subjected, treatment, forefathers, heritage, superiority, tolerated, tradition, equality, distributed, fairly, selfishness, intolerable, trait, frowned, machete.

Five Context-Clue Lenses

  1. Grammar: what word class fits the sentence?
  2. Local meaning: what do the nearby words suggest?
  3. Contrast: is the unknown word opposed to another idea?
  4. Cause and effect: what happened before and after it?
  5. World fit: which meaning makes the whole situation coherent?

Worked Example: Startled

A branch snapped behind her. Startled, she spun around.

Worked Example: Indifferently

He barely looked up and replied indifferently.

Context Practice

  1. The medicine contained a ______ substance, so only a tiny amount was required. potent / modest
  2. After three nights of poor sleep, the traveller moved ______. indifferently / wearily
  3. The pupils were ______ to repeated unfair treatment. subjected / distributed
  4. She ______ across the room so quietly that nobody noticed. crept / heaved
  5. The sudden crash ______ him. startled / tolerated

Answers: potent; wearily (from the wider vocabulary family, not the historical 32-word bank); subjected; crept; startled.

Polysemy Check

Some words require extra care because they have multiple senses:

Do Not Over-Guess

Context gives a hypothesis, not permission to invent any meaning that seems possible. After inferring, verify the word and then reread the sentence. Good vocabulary learning follows:

infer → verify → reread → retrieve → transfer.

Closed-Book Retrieval

  1. Without much interest or concern: ________.
  2. Suddenly surprised or alarmed: ________.
  3. Powerful or strongly effective: ________.
  4. Caused someone to experience something, usually unpleasant: ________.
  5. A distinguishing characteristic: ________.

Answers: indifferently; startled; potent; subjected; trait.

RFE

Help the learner construct a defensible meaning from textual evidence, verify it, and carry the word forward into independent use.

For the full passage glossary, see Raffles Girls SA2 2019 Vocabulary Guide.

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Choose the question that brought you here. Open one useful guide, try a small task, and stop when you have what you need.

Take one question further

The same learning habit can travel across subjects, while each subject keeps its own methods. These routes help you notice a difficulty, understand one part of it, and return to something you can do.

A word is familiar, but using it is difficult.

Move from recognising a word to retrieving it in a new context. Understand vocabulary plateaus.

Try it without the guide: Choose one word you already know. Close the guide and use it in a new sentence. Explain why it fits; try another context tomorrow.

A piece of writing has ideas, but the reader loses the thread.

Make the order of events and the links between sentences clear. Explore composition writing.

Try it without the guide: Choose one short paragraph. Read the relevant explanation, close it, and revise the paragraph. Ask someone to tell you what happened and why.

The Mathematics seems familiar, but marks still disappear.

Find the first point where the working stops being reliable. Find Secondary 4 A-Math mark leakage.

Try it without the guide: For a Secondary 4 A-Math question you have attempted, locate the first uncertain line. Repair that step, then try a comparable question without the worked answer.

A Science fact is remembered, but the explanation is incomplete.

Connect the evidence to a scientific idea and the resulting change. Follow the Primary Science learning route.

Try it without the guide: Choose a familiar Primary Science example. Explain the evidence, the idea and the result without notes. Then change one condition and explain your prediction.

Two accounts of the world seem to disagree.

Check the question, source, date and evidence before combining claims. Explore the World Knowledge research library.

Try it without the guide: Take one claim. Find the source best placed to support it, note its date, and state what remains uncertain. Return to your original question.

There is plenty of help, but independence is hard to see.

Check what the learner can understand and do after support is removed. Understand how education works.

Try it without the guide: Choose one small task the child has practised. Agree on a calm, brief attempt without prompts. Use what happens to choose one next step, then stop.

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