Isaac was reading his history textbook when he came to the word ...

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Isaac was reading his history textbook when he came to the word proletariat. The
  first thing he should do to figure out the word's meaning is to
 
  a. look it up in the dictionary.
  b. break it up into parts.
   c. try to pronounce it out loud.
   d. look for context clues in the sentence.

Question 2

Maria is writing a speech in which she uses the word artificial several times. She
  would look up artificial in a thesaurus if she wanted to find out
 
  a. where it originated.
  b. how to pronounce it properly.
  c. how to say it in another language.
  d. what other words she could use to mean the same thing.

[C.mcnichol98]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d