Question

When Jasmine says, "That song makes me blue." Her friend Rice says, "You don't look like a different color to me." Rice's failure to understand that in certain context the word "blue" in English means depressed illustrates a lack of _____ understanding.

Answer 1

Answer:

semantic                                                                      

Explanation:  

Semantic: The term "semantic" is described as one of the philosophical and linguistic study of certain meaning in semiotics, language, formal logics, and programming languages. Semantic is often being used in a few ordinary languages for referring a specific problem of "understanding" that generally comes down towards word connotation or selection.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the semantic understanding.