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!!! GIVING 15 POINTS (for answer)!!! (please don't take my points) Read the passage below from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and answer the question.

Bending down to investigate, I realized I’d stepped on the dirk. When I recalled the circumstances as to why I’d thrown it, I resolved to return the dagger immediately.

Excerpts from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, copyright © 1990 by Avi. Used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights reserved.

The word dagger provides which kind of context clue as to the meaning of the word dirk?

restatement
definition
contrast
inference

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Answer:

i dont know but my guess is

restatement

sorry if im wrong i tried

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restatement would be the answer :))
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