Background
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground.) The image or color, over which a computer's desktop items are show (e.g. icons or application windows). Activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user
Example sentence: I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.
Scop
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.