If you don't know a word and you don't have one of these...

What could you use to help you guess?

Look at the word in bold below. What do you think it means?

The probem with young people today is that they all speak such gibberish.

Difficult to understand/poor sentence construction/modern abbreviate/nonsense/no meaning

Look at these expreesions, which we can use to guess at the meaning of words, and fill in the blanks.

Make guesses about this word using the sentences below.

His suggestion was absolutely preposterous - don't know what he was thinking

Ridiculous/unreasonble/unacceptable/

I'm guessing...

From the context,

It looks like...

If I had to...

It rings a...

Today we...

guessed the definitions of difficult words.

Before you go...

What's your favorite word in your nativelanguage, and in English? Give a definition.