story name: all together now by barbara jordan
Find the word deferred in paragraph 4 of “All Together Now.” Use context clues in the surrounding sentences, as well as the sentence in which the word appears, to determine the word’s meaning. Write your definition here and identify clues that helped you figure out the meaning.
Definition: postpone or delay
Context clues: In the surrounding sentences, there are references to actions being delayed, such as "Some have deferred marriage" and "others, education." These examples suggest that deferred means something being put off or postponed. In the sentence where the word appears, it states "But people defer dreams for various reasons." This reinforces the idea that deferred means delaying or postponing dreams.