Use context clues to determine the meaning of the italicized word in the sentence below. Her enormous job responsibilities precluded the option of a vacation this summer. A. made impossible in advance B. specified in advance C. were in harmony with D. indefinitely postponed

A. made impossible in advance

Explanation:

Context clues occur in texts where an unknown word is added, but the reader is able to understand what it means without having to use dictionaries, due to the context of the sentence as a whole.

Although you have not presented any words in Italian, in the sentence above, we can see that the unknown word that the sentence presents is the word "precluded", although we do not know what it means, we know that the sentence refers to how it was not It is possible for a woman to plan her summer vacation because of the professional responsibilities she had. In this case, we managed to enter that "precluded" means "made impossible in advance".

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