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"To avoid suspicion, the secret agent had to be discreet and cautious."

"If she had not been discreet, her affair with the governor could have ruined his political career."

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Words and phrases in a sentence that help you reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word are called?

These are called context clues.


How do use 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.


A Sentence for context?

Context clues help you define the definition of the word.


What is the context clue of healthy?

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.


When a word is defined by its use in a sentence what is it called?

Using context clues.


Use clues in the sentence to interpret the meaning of the underlined word.?

Could you provide the sentence with the underlined word for context?


Context clues provide?

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.


A definition context clues to show where the vocabulary word is defined?

commas or dashes


What are 6 kinds of context clues?

Context clues can be categorized into six types: Definition Clues: The word is defined directly in the sentence. Synonym Clues: A synonym is provided to suggest the meaning. Antonym Clues: An opposite word is used to clarify the meaning. Example Clues: Examples are given to illustrate the term. General Context: The overall meaning of the sentence or passage provides hints about the word. Inference Clues: Readers can deduce the meaning based on the surrounding information and their own knowledge.


What is a sentence with the word stagnant with context clues?

The stagnant water was unsafe to drink because it was not moving.


What do you have to do to use inference context clues?

Put two and two together


These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of a word?

context clues