When you read carefully and rely on context clues, you are..
a. reading over and over in order to remember what you just read.
b. analyzing interpretations of what you read in order to better understand.
c. comparing and contrasting the text to other texts you have read.
d. making educated guesses as to the meaning of difficult words.?

The answer is:

d. making educated guesses as to the meaning of difficult words.?

Context clues are hints that an author provides to help illustrate a difficult or unusual word. They may appear within the same sentence or in a nearby sentence in relation to the word they refer to. Besides, an educated guess indicates an assumption based on knowledge and experience, which is therefore likely to be correct. As a result, context clues aids readers to make inferences about unknown vocabulary.

d. football allowed the narrator and his father to reconnect after his parents' divorce.

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