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Context clues allow a reader to discover (roughly) the meaning of an unknown word, by using the context surrounding the word. English, by nature, demands that for a sentence to be grammatically correct, it must conform with a series of syntax and grammar rules. Since a word cannot be thrown randomly into a grammatically correct sentence, we may therefore infer a words meaning via the surrounding words. Here are some examples:

The new ruler was xenophobic, and later that year expelled all foreigners from the country.

In the above example, xenophobic would be an unknown word to most people. However, we can infer from the latter part of the sentence "and later that year expelled all foreigners from the country" that the new ruler was afraid or hostile to foreigners. This is the exact meaning of xenophobic.

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