Strategy
Understanding Parts of Speech
To figure out the meaning of a new word from the context, you may find it helpful to know its part of speech; that is, is the word a noun, a verb, an adjective, or an adverb? Many words are related to one another, they have the same stem (base word) but different endings for different parts of speech.
Example
Cities around the globe need to find solutions to similar problems, so city planners sometimes meet at a globe conference. (Globe is a noun. Global is an adjective; it describes the noun conference.)