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- try to develop the habit of going to the dictionary whenever you encounter an unfamiliar word
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“Dictionary.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictionary. Accessed 18 January 2020.
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