When I reminded him to clean the shelves and dust them, he said I was being redundant since we've never cleaned the shelves by any other method.
These are called context clues.
Could you provide the sentence with the underlined word for context?
commas or dashes
Context clues.
A sentence for the word portend that uses context clues is, "The change in the wind's speed and direction portended the catastrophic hurricane that eventually struck the area."
These are called context clues.
Context clues can help you figure out the meaning of a word in a sentence or paragraph. To use context clues, you read the sentences surrounding the word that you do not know to figure out what it means.
Context clues help you define the definition of the word.
I think you misunderstand context clues. They are clues within a sentence or paragraph that gives clues to the meaning of a word. Your question takes the word "healthy" out of context and what you seem to want is a definition of the word.
Using context clues.
Could you provide the sentence with the underlined word for context?
Context Clues are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may follow in a preceding sentence.
commas or dashes
The stagnant water was unsafe to drink because it was not moving.
Put two and two together
context clues
context clues you will see it in the last of the sentence for you to know what is the meaning of that hardly word