He summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court. –"The Masque of the Red Death," Edgar Allan Poe Using context clues, how would you determine the meaning of the word "dames"? 1 ) Look at the surrounding words.
4) Find the word in the dictionary.
3) Ask a friend what the word means.
4) Skip the word entirely.

if the hares very faster than they are now, and thus the lynx's hunting success rate drops because it will be harder to catch them, the rate that will change will be the pray-rate. the pray-rate will change because more hares will be able to survive, thus more individuals for reproduction, so the end result will be increasing population of hares.

the predator-rate will remain pretty much the same because there will be more than enough pray, but the hunting success rate is stagnant.