Vocabulary 2

Metropolises

"It was one of the world's great metropolises at the time, famously compared to Venice by royal chronicles."
Taco USA - p. 16
The context clues were compared: to Venice.
The type of context clue was example.
Los Angeles is a modern day metropolis.

Gourmand

"Moctezuma held in honor of Cortes' arrival, with the rule's cooks preparing a banquet that played to their master's gourmand tendencies, the tendencies his advisors had warned were leaving him week."
Taco USA - p. 17
The context clues were: preparing a banquet.
The type of context clue was inference.
My husband is a gourmand when it comes to Mexican food.

Ethnographies (Ethnography)

"Bernardino de Sahaguin, the Franciscan friar whose ethnographies of the Aztecs remain one of the most thorough resources on them."
Taco USA - p. 18
The context clues were: of the Aztecs.
The type of context clue was example.
It would be interesting for my husband to find out the ethnographies of his ancestors because they came from so many different places.