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Context Important Historical Word Remarks N Larger Environment

Term context (n.)
Synonym a larger environment that something fits into
Meaning

• It is important to see all the fighting and bloodshed in his plays in historical context.


• This small battle is very important in the context of Scottish history.


• To understand this issue, it must first be situated in its context.


• The production is deliberately styleless, and this takes the play out of its historical context.


• What was the context you found the word in?


• He thinks smacking is OK in the context of a happy family.


• His remarks were very tasteless in the context of a memorial service.


• In this exercise, a word is blanked out and you have to guess what it is by looking at the context.


• The papers took my remarks completely out of context.

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