Assess students' ability to apply context clues and morphological analysis (prefixes, suffixes, roots) to infer meanings of unfamiliar words in grade 6–8 texts. Include short passages with target words and a mix of multiple-choice and short-answer items requiring decomposition of words into morphemes, selection of the best definition, and written justification using specific contextual evidence and morphological reasoning; tasks may ask students to generate synonyms, antonyms, or paraphrases based on their analysis.