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Read the following sentence and determine the meaning of the underlined word using context clue or your prior knowledge. Then, explain what clues in the sentence helped you determine the word meaning.

They lady decided that it was tea time and so, by jingling a tiny silver bell, she "beckoned" her servants to attend.

beckoned is the underline word

(Grading criteria:1pt - correct meaning:1pt - context clues:1pt)

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The meaning of the underlined word, 'Beckoned' is

  • to summon or call upon.

The context clue that makes it easier for me to understand the meaning of the word beckoned is "jingling a tiny silver bell". A bell is used to summon or call the attention of people to something.

So, after this phrase was used, beckoned followed, thus giving the idea that the word means to call someone to come for something.

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