Read the passage below and use your word structure strategy to you determine the meaning of the underlined words in the passage. write the meanings of each underlined word and explain how you determined each meaning. an old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. there was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts, trucks, and men, women and children were crossing it. the mule-drawn carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers push against the spokes of the wheels. the trucks ground up and away heading out of it and peasants plodded along in the ankle deep dust. but the old man sat there without moving. he was too tired to go any further. spectacles, pontoon, peasants are the underlined words.