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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
For me it's much easier to guess the meanings of words in situations. That's why while reading books I hardly ever look up words in the dictionary, only when there are more than three in one passage.
I always look up words I don't know when I encounter them. That's how one's vocabulary grows.
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