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In the passage, the type of context clue which was used to determine the meaning of the word 'Refuted' is D. Synonym.
What is a context clue?
These are known as hints found within sentences, paragraphs s and statements that a reader uses to understand the meaning of new or unfamiliar words.
The word 'Refute' means to prove a statement or a theory to be wrong or to be false thereby disapproving it. The word 'refute' was used as a synonym in the passage as Sam finally proved her statement correctly using an encyclopedia.
A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme or phrase in a given language. The word Refute is a word used as a synonym as the context clue in the passage.
Hence, the type of context clue used is a synonym and the correct answer is option D.
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