A sixth grade student encounters the following sentence in a short story: She experienced a sense of deja vu as she walked down the street of the strange new city. The student asks the teacher about the meaning of deja vu in the sentence. The teacher could best respond by advising the student to take which of the following steps?

A. make note of the word in a vocabulary log, and then study the word after finishing the story
B. use context clues in the sentence to guess the meaning of the word, and then try out that meaning in the sentence
C. look up the word in the dictionary, and then paraphrase the sentence using the dictionary definition
D. break the word into its component parts, and then compare the parts to the meanings of similar known words


Answer: C. look up the word in the dictionary, and then paraphrase the sentence using the dictionary definition

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