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3 marksDifficulty: Medium
What is meant by inferring the meaning of a word from context? Illustrate with an example.
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
It means working out what an unfamiliar word means from the sentence it stands in and the sentences round it, rather than from a dictionary. In "the once garrulous man now sat in silence, saying nothing for hours", the contrast with silence shows that garrulous must mean talkative.
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Explanation
Contrast, example and definition within the passage are the three commonest kinds of context clue.
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