Insomnia (Noun)




Inability to sleep soundly




Source sentence: Suffering a bout of insomnia, however, I was stalking sleep, not defenseless wayfarers




The Context Clue logic tells me that he is suffering, stalking sleep and defenseless




Original Sentence: My co worker suffers from insomnia and has to take medication for her to sleep well at night





Eviscerated (Verb)





To gut, insides cut out





Source Sentence: After slaughter the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly,pried open ,eviscerated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt.





Context clue: The context clue logic, tells me through an act of violence





Original sentence: I would be disgusted to see anything be eviscerated


Dismay (Noun)



Disappointed feeling; distress



Source Sentence: As a softy who is scarcely able to take a knife to a raw chicken-let alone hold it to a persons throat-I was surprised, embarrassed, and dismayed all at once



Context Clue: Logic tells me that through embarrassment, and surprise how he is feeling dismayed



Original Sentence: I was in total dismay over the grammie's when Taylor Swift took home the award for artist of the year.


Solace (Noun)



Comfort, Peace



Source Sentence: Yet these truths are no solace against the kind of alienation that comes of being ever the suspect, against being set apart, a fearsome entity with whom pedestrians avoid making eye contact.



Context Clue: Example tells me that feeling alienated, a suspect, being set apart, and avoiding eye contact that he recieves no solace.


Original Sentence: Before I go to bed at night I feel a great deal of solace after I am done praying.



Perilous (Adjetive)



Dangerous



Source Sentence: The fearsomeness mistakenly attributed to me in public places often has a perilous flavor.



Context Clue: The context clue logic tells me that through mistaken fearsomness in a public place there always seems to be danger.



Original Senntence: I was in a perious state of mind a little over eighteen months ago due to drug abuse.



Taut (Adjetive)



Ridged, Tight



Source Sentence: Elsewhere-visiting friends from SoHo, where sidewalks are narrow and tightly spaced buildings shut out the sky-things can get very taut indeed.



Context Clue: The contect clue synonym tells me that through narrow sidewalks and tightly spaced buildings that things are very taut.



Original sentence: Now that I have started school my schedule is very taut but, I am learning how to budget my time due to the weekly calander that Miss Henderson has provided for me.