Which word is worth looking up?

• One that repeats and blocks meaning
• One you already know well
• One in the page footer

What should you chase first in a real article?

• Every single word
• The page number
• The main point

Always pick the first sense in a dictionary entry.

Circle one:   True   False

A menu word puzzles you but the dish still sounds clear. Look it up?

• Yes, always stop at once
• No, skip it and order happily
• Only after rewriting the menu

You know most words but miss one in each line. What do you do?

• Stop and quit reading
• Copy the text by hand
• Guess from context and read on

Surrounding text should be used before reaching for a dictionary.

Circle one:   True   False

A word fits two senses. How do you pick?

• Test each sense in your sentence
• Close your eyes and point
• Always take the longest sense

Two readers meet one hard page. One looks up all forty unknowns, one looks up five. Who finishes wiser?

• The forty word reader, since more is more
• The five word reader, since she kept the point
• Neither, since hard pages teach nothing