Contrast, Cause, and Effect Clues
Some sentences tell you a word’s meaning by telling you what it is not. Others tell you by showing what it caused. Both work through logic rather than definition, and both hinge on a small set of connecting words that most readers skim past. But, however, although, unlike, rather than, because, so, therefore. These are […]
Build a Word, Then Check It Against the Whole Word
You have the pieces now: prefixes at the front, roots in the middle, suffixes at the end. This is where they work together, and where you learn when to stop trusting them. Two failures show up constantly. One is grabbing a single familiar fragment and building an entire meaning on it. The other is treating […]