How do words acquire meaning?
1) In most cases, words acquire meaning from how they are used, not from some pithy dictionary-style definition. This comes as a shock to many students. All-too-often, they've been taught, year after year, that if they just rote-memorize some glib definition and regurgitate it on the test, they'll get a good grade.
1) In most cases, words acquire meaning from how they are used, not from some pithy dictionary-style definition. This comes as a shock to many students. All-too-often, they've been taught, year after year, that if they just rote-memorize some glib definition and regurgitate it on the test, they'll get a good grade.
