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Old 05-20-2009, 09:11 AM   #15
tompe
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The word want has been removed because this is about need and not want. So do you actually need a dictionary on your reader? Just wanting one is a no. You have to actually need one to vote yes.
I do not get what need means here. Should you answer yes if there is one word in the book you do not know the meaning of? I definitely need a dictionary if I want to exactly understand all words in most books I read.

There are also a lot of words that are very easy to guess wrong what they mean. For me it is adjective like "bemused" and "gingerly" (these two words I read books more than 10 years and not noticing that I had guessed wrong). So it is false that you always can guess from context what the word mean.
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