You are reading an informational text for english class, and you find a lot of words you don't know. your teacher says you don't need to look up all of them in the dictionary, only the ones you need to get the main point of the text. how could text features you figure out which words to look up?

Use context clues.

Explanation:

Context clues are clues in the text around a word that help you find a word's meaning.

For a simple example, if the text says:

'"Which building should we go to?" asked Tim.

"Let's go to my house!" exclaimed Bob.'

Let's say you don't know what the word "building" means.  Using context clues, you can find out that a house is a type of building, and so you have an idea of what a building may be.

do you have options?

1.the hosts on two opposing mountains stood,  

2.thick as the foliage of the waving wood;  

3.between them an extensive valley lay,  

4.o'er which the gleaming armour pour'd the day,  

5.when from the camp of the philistine foes,

6. dreadful to view, a mighty warrior rose; in the dire deeds of bleeding battle skill'd,