The historian placed the ancient inscription within its broader cultural and political context to interpret its meaning.
历史学家将古代铭文置于更广泛的文化和政治背景中，以解读其含义。
A subsequent study by psychologist Ben Holt replicated Okafor's design but sampled 200 employees in a different industry and found the opposite pattern: infrequent, large rewards produced higher satisfaction, suggesting the relationship between praise structure and satisfaction may vary by workplace context.
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Curator Felix Adeyemi, who organized a similar exhibit at another museum, cautions that placing objects from vastly different eras side by side risks flattening their distinct historical contexts into a misleading sense of timeless sameness.
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Theater historian Boris Kaminski, who has studied similar modern-dress productions elsewhere, cautions that updating a play's setting can sometimes obscure historical context that is essential to understanding certain plot points and character motivations.
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Which choice best defines “context”?
D — Surrounding situation. “context” means surrounding situation.
Which word means “surrounding situation”?
C — context. “context” means surrounding situation.
context — surrounding situation. In Chinese: 上下文，语境.
context is pronounced /ˈkɒntekst/.
The historian placed the ancient inscription within its broader cultural and political context to interpret its meaning. (历史学家将古代铭文置于更广泛的文化和政治背景中，以解读其含义。)
circumstances, setting, background — all close in meaning to context (surrounding situation).
Yes. context is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
con(together/showing together)+text(text/words, written content).