Ofen in your reading you will come across words or phrases that are unfarmiliar to you. You might be lucky enough to have dictionary handy to look up that word or phrase. But what if you don’t? How can you understand what you’re reading if you don’t know what all the words mean? Fortunately, you can often use context to determine meaning. That is, by looking carefully at the sentences and ideas surrounding an unfamiliar word, you can often figure out exactly what that word means.