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noun

  • A piece of information from the surrounding words or sentences in a text that helps a reader deduce the meaning of an unfamiliar term or phrase.

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Not even the youngest folks in an audience filled with families needed such a context clue to identify the deathless “Celebration,” of course.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2021

Even though I didn't know what 'ephemeral' meant, I used the context clue in the sentence, which described a mayfly's 'short-lived' existence, to understand it.

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  • textual evidence
  • word detective's helper
  • surrounding vibe
  • meaning signal
  • reader's breadcrumb

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  • vocabulary wall
  • misdirection
  • textual fog

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