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A _________ is a hint that an author gives in a sentence or a paragraph to help explain a difficult word.

Context clues are usually found within the same _________ as the difficult word, but they can also be in the __________ before or after it.

The context clues within these sentences could come in the form of a ___________, a ___________, an ___________, or an ____________.

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