He was, however, a pacifist who felt bad about the destructive power that he created. he established the nobel prize as an award for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, literature, and economics. looking at the context, what is the definition of pacifist? a. an inventor of explosives b. a very famous scientist c. a person against violence d. a cruel, violent person “the meaning of the word pacifist is context clue which me to determine the meaning was “”. this is a type of clue.” ((insert a quote from the text)) hint: the types of context clues are: similarity, contrast, appositive, example, and definition