Question

If you do not understand a word in a sentence, you can look at other words around it for ______ ______.

Answer 1

It would be Context clues I think a

Answer 2

If you do not understand a word in a sentence, you can look at other words around it for context clues.

Context clues are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult word. They might be in the same sentence or in the following sentence. Essentially, when you understand the rest of the sentence, it allows you to inference what the unknown word might mean.