Read each sentence and explain what the underlined word means. (1 sentence) After explaining what each underlined word means, describe what context clues you looked at in order to help you define each word. (1 sentence)
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Scale in the sentence means to climb. Context clues that hint towards this include the noun mountain and the word climb used in the second sentence.

Explanation:

Scaling is a verb that is generally used in the context of climbing something tall like a building or mountain, so the use of the noun mountain makes it clear that the person is climbing a mountain. Since they say that they climbed down the other side, it further proves that scale means climb in the context.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

following gollum to the back entrance