Context Clues, Roots, and Affixes
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Using Context Clues to Define a Word
Which antonym helped you determine the meaning of
callous?
I suffered more anxiety than most of my fellow-slaves....
Their backs had been made familiar with the bloody lash,
so that they had become callous; mine was yet tender; for
while at Baltimore I got few whippings....
--Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass
