Question

What exercise is to the body, reading is to the mind. There are different purposes of
reading. One of them is deriving pleasure. Children reading for their pleasure rarely stop to
ask about the words. They want to get on with the story. If the word is important, they can
usually make a good guess about what it is. “He drew an arrow from his quiver”. Easy to see
that a quiver is some sort of gadget to put arrows in. More complicated words they figure
out by meeting them in different contexts. People learn to read well and get good
vocabulary, from books, not work books or dictionaries. As a kid I read years ahead of my
age, but I never looked up words in dictionaries, and didn’t even have a dictionary. In my
lifetime I don’t believe I have looked even as many as fifty words – neither have most good
readers. Most people don’t know how dictionaries are made. Each new dictionary starts
from scratch. The company making the dictionary employs thousands of ‘editors’, to each
of whom they give a list of words. The job of the editor is to collect as many examples as
possible of the ways in which these words are actually used. They look for the words in
books, newspapers, and so forth and every time they find one, they cut out or copy that
particular example. Then after reading these examples they decide ‘from the context’ what
the writer in each case had meant by the words. From these they make definitions. A
dictionary in other words, is a collection of people’s opinions about what words mean as
other people use them.
On the basis of reading of the above passage answer the following questions.
a. How do children find out meanings when they are reading for pleasure?
b. Does the passage suggest that a dictionary is essential for a good vocabulary? Why or
why not?
c. Write any one step in the process of making a dictionary.
d. Define a dictionary in your own words.
e. Find the phrase in the passage which means ‘calculate/think about until one
understands.’

Answer 1

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