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context (n)

context (n) – Extra information that helps make sense of the world. Example – you find a skull in the woods. The extra information you find at the scene gives you the context to decide what to do next. If you also find a dismembered skeleton, you call the police. If you find a chariot [...]

bathos – (n)

bathos – noun 1. a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax. 2. insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness. 3. triteness or triviality in style. 4. adding the suffix ‘OS’ to a trade name in the hope that it sounds open-source