Try not to look up every unknown word in the dictionary.
Underline unknown words; try to guess the meaning but don't look them up in dictionary yet.
Some students believe that they must read every text slowly and carefully, underlining every unknown word and stopping to worry about it.
Sometimes we guess the meanings of unknown words or expressions in a reading passage through common sense.
We read in two ways: a new or unknown word is spelled out letter by letter.
the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text.
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