The Interlopers / Saki

Test Practice

Use Context Clues

Discuss with your partner how to best answer the following questions about words in context.
Read the following passage.

A famous lawsuit…had wrested it [the land] from the illegal possession of a neighboring family…the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals embittered the relationships between the families...

1. What is the best definition of wrested based on the context clues in the passage above?
a. gave up voluntarily
b. obtained
c. took away with force
d. took away


What is the correct answer to the question above? How did you eliminate other answers? How did your application of the reading strategy help you answer the question?

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