contest — context
[different end pronunciation; the letter ‘c’ in both these words is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound]
“Contest”, for the right pronunciation of the Verb form & the Noun form of this word, please click here, is ‘a fight between two persons or two groups/teams, following certain rules and watched over by judges to decide who has done better; a competition in which people or animals participate, following certain rules and watched over by judges to decide who has done better, the act of standing in an election’; a competition,
e.g.
My grand-daughter, Nikki, won a prize in the essay-writing contest.
‘Miss World’ is the title given to the winner of the international beauty contest.
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“Context”, for the right pronunciation, please click here, is ‘some general condition or circumstance in which an action or event takes place; the position or setting of a word or phrase among the surrounding words or phrases used to help explain the meaning of that particular word or phrase in a sentence’,
e.g.
Students are advised to develop the habit of understanding the new words from the context. [i.e. they are advised to learn the meanings and usage of words by understand how they are used with the other words in a sentence, e.g. “something came up”, in this expression, nobody moved from one place to another, but the meaning is ‘some unexpected event happened’; “someone came up and asked for help”, in this expression, ‘some person’ moved from one place to another, there is actually some physical movement; therefore, the meaning or usage of ‘came’ in these two examples is different depending on the context.]
She made some out of context remarks, and expected us to accept them! [i.e. remarks that are not related, not relevant or not referring to the topic in discussion or matter to be considered or the situation they were in.]
