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What is the most useful method for deciding which dictionary definition is the best one for an unfamiliar word you have found in a passage?
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∙ 11y ago
It's called context. If you read "The captain looked over the bow as the salt spray washed over him." the context suggests that he is on a sailing ship. But you don't know the word "bow" so you look it up. "A floppy loopy knot often tied in a ribbon" is one definition, but was the captain looking at a floppy loopy knot? Don't think so. Try again: "A bent piece of wood with a cord for shooting arrows" Was that what the captain was looking over? Hmm. How about "The front part of a ship"? The context tells you that this is the right definition.
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∙ 11y ago
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The context of the sentence where the word appears- Apex (:
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figuring out the flow of the passage
The word-skipping technique relies on the fact that it's a good idea to skip unfamiliar words in a passage in order to focus on?
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