Sometimes you have to look at the general sense of the passage. What is going on, and what would make sense in the light of the words around the unknown one.
Examples:
The car wash we organized to raise funds was a fiasco, for it rained all day.
We know that if it rained all day, a car wash would not be successful.
A former employee, irate over having been fired, broke into the plant and deliberately wrecked several machines.
We can guess how someone would feel about being fired, especially if that person then broke into the former workplace and vandalized it.
See Friday, February 27, 2012.
Thanks to Improving Reading Comprehension Skills by Langan, Cader, and Anton.
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