Word of the Day
I've been drinking too much Starbucks lately (but the frappachinos...are so good!) and have decided to put up, at least for today, a word of the day in honor of the "Akeelah and the Bee" movie that Starbucks is ceaselessly pummeling me with adverstisements for. On days I decide to do this, I will say the word, spell the word, give the definition and use it in a sentence. On to todays word!
Today's word is:
Context (k
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C-O-N-T-E-X-T. context.
con·text n.
"On the Internet, anything you say, write or think is garunteed to be taken out of context by somebody who whishes to berate your ideas without having to try."
or:
"I see the Cold War as being framed in the context of good versus evil, with Western capitalism being good and communism as being evil which should have been defeated at all costs."
Today's word is:
Context (k
ntkst)C-O-N-T-E-X-T. context.
con·text n.
1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
2. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting."On the Internet, anything you say, write or think is garunteed to be taken out of context by somebody who whishes to berate your ideas without having to try."
or:
"I see the Cold War as being framed in the context of good versus evil, with Western capitalism being good and communism as being evil which should have been defeated at all costs."
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