"I think I remember this word from 6th grade Chinese... I believe it means "work.""The Word Wang has many meanings depending on tone and context, but the most common form of this word, 王, means King.The word Gong, 工, means work. The two characters are really similar.
Getting meaning from context means: Looking at the words around an unfamiliar word to help determine meaning. Sometimes, if you read the entire paragraph that contains the unfamiliar word, you can figure out what the word means.
Context is the words around a word or the way a word is used.
Let me think NO
In reference to the word "Containment," in the historical context of Communism, containment is the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence. The actual word containment means to block passage or quarantine.
No gorge means to put away or eat really fast, pleasant is nice or thoughtful.
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Maybe "around," depending on context. I think the word you're looking for is "circa".
The base word of "gorgeous" is "gorge," which comes from the Old French word "gorge," meaning "throat" or "entrance." The root word is "gorge."
Yes, and this is referred to as being a context clue. Reading the context in which the word is being used, you can tell what the word means. You can infer the meaning of a word using context clues. The words around it are often hints as to what the word means.
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I can think of two possibilities: "cloned" and "copied". Looking at it in another context, it could be "equalized".
Gorge is a good word, could be a ravine.
The word former means decreased in some context and ex- in other context. The abbreviation of the word former is FMR.
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Context clues.
The word that means what the text surrounding the word is that helps give meaning to the word is "context". Context clues can help giving meaning to words that confuse us.