18	THE VOLUNTEER MINISTER
		
You use a dictionary when word clearing. The misundersto looked up in the dictionary and you learn what the word that you know it without again referring to the dictionary, word is used in severai sentences which clearly indicate understand it.
Words sometimes have different or more than one me have to know every different meaning so ali definitions are and the word is fully defined. You also must choose the d use in the sentence so that the materiais are understood.
The Alphabet
Knowledge of the aiphabet is the key to finding words qi aiphabet must be known cold. The person who has to figure letter comes first, m or n or u or v, wastes many precio which can add up to many wasted hours.
Words are arranged in aiphabeticai order in ali dicti words beginning with the letter A would be in the first words beginning with the letter B in the second section Within these sections the words themselves are arranged second ietter in the word is in alphabetical order. (For word "fali" precedes the word "few," which precedes the etc.)
Near the top of each page, printed in bold type word and the last word on the page (in very large dictio two coiumns). You can use this as a guide to quickly that contains the word you are looking for.
How to Break up a Word
Many words are in a combined form and by ser you can look up each part in the dictionary. By meaning of the word often becomes ciearer. Take th
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