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June 12, 2013

The Dictionary – A Self-Educator’s Best Friend

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Good self-educators use a dictionary. No one can possibly know every word they run across in their educational pursuits, not even the most educated among us. If you include technical and scientific terms, there are an estimated 1,000,000 words in the English language. How can anyone know them all? They can’t.

I’m grateful that when I read e-books on my Kindle (my preferred way to read these days), it has an excellent built-in dictionary that easily looks up words as I’m reading. It’s yet another reason I so highly recommend the Kindle. (Most e-readers have this functionality built in these days and there are dictionary apps when reading on a tablet too.)

Of course, I don’t read everything on my Kindle and when I run across a word I don’t know I typically turn to my favorite online dictionary – onelook.com. Onelook.com has over 1,000 online dictionaries indexed and when you search on a word it searches across all of them simultaneously to produce definitions.

I suggest you bookmark onelook.com and use it often. And if you have another online dictionary you prefer, I’d love to hear about it.

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