Preserving English
Deciphering the Meaning of Words
4 min readMar 12, 2019
Every word has its meaning. And when that meaning is unknown the dictionary should be deferred to, always. But it isn’t; people do not instinctively look to the dictionary for the meaning of words because they have been taught to do everything but. Students, starting in elementary, are told to utilize their “context clues” and even their common sense — which is good — but are…
