Explain how context clues are used in the sentence“Their greatest fear was of a conflagration,since fire would destroy their flimsy wooden settlement before help could arrive”.

Explain how context clues are used in the sentence“Their greatest fear was of a conflagration,since fire would destroy their flimsy wooden settlement before help could arrive”.

Synonymy is used as context clue in this sentence. Synonyms or synonymous expressions are frequently employed to explain new words. In this sentence conflagration and fire are synonyms, so the meaning of conflagration is very clear.