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Reading Champs Common Sense Mini-lesson # 030
TITLE: Multiple Meanings of Words -- Vocabulary Development Resource
Catalog Index: CSML-030
Price (USD): $6.95

Learning to use a dictionary

Skills Development Resource

There is often a need to clarify means of many familiar words through attention to multiple meanings or multinyms, words whose meanings (and pronunciations) vary with context. The denotation of a word is the primary dictionary definition (literal meaning); the connotation is the interpretation of the word with its emotional meaning. Consider that a word is rarely just a word made up of specific letters; it usually has more than one meaning and may have significance beyond its dictionary definition. It frequently has suggestive overtones as it means only what a person thinks it means.

Complete dependence on the dictionary definition may result in error. The reader must be able to understand the concept that familiar words often have different meanings according to the context in which they are used. This is best accomplished by combining reading with dictionary exercises. When doing this, the goal is to recognize the proper in-context interpretation of a word by substituting differing dictionary meanings to decide which of the meanings is most correct to complete the meaning of the sentence. To refine this process, learners should practice how to deliberately infer meaning from what went before and, if necessary, reading ahead for clues to meaning.

Related Mini-lessons and Additional Reading on this subject.

CSML-029: Using a dictionary.

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	Multiple Meanings of Words	Created by Rita M. Wirtz, M.A. Edited by Donald E. Werve, Jr., M.Ed.	CSML-030LP	$6.95 (eB)

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