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Can you elaborate on the reason context clues are important?

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Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may follow in a preceding sentence.
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context clues are hints of information that can help us figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.  
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