<em>“The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.”</em>
Hey hun, they are 3 different meanings for Talons.
a claw, especially one belonging to a bird of prey.
the part of a bolt against which the key presses to slide it in a lock.
(in various card games) the cards that have not yet been dealt.
its orgin,
late Middle English (denoting any heel-like part or object): from Old French, literally ‘heel’, from Latintalus‘ankle bone, heel
Hope it helps
Answer:
Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence.
Explanation:
For example: Synonym context clues offer words nearby with the same meaning: Synonym: The annual bazaar is scheduled for the last day of school. It's always a fun festival.
