After thorough researching, the words around the one you don't understand provide context clues. The correct answer to the following given statement above is context clues. In addition, context clues are is a kind of information you can get from the word.
Whenever you are reading a text and come across a word you don´t know the meaning of, a good technique is using the context clues to help you understand the meaning.
The surrounding words in a text provide you with hints so that you can infer the meaning of an unknown word.
The rest of the options are incorrect since direct meaning gives you the definition of the unknown word.
Also, the surrounding words are not irrelevant information since they help you grasp the meaning of a word based on the context.
