Infer the meaning of a word from its context

It is interesting to guess the meaning of unkonown words according to the context.It is a little bit challenge at times.
How to guess the meaning of a word according to the context?
The easiest way to guess the meaning of a word is through context.Words have meaning in relation to other words and the situation in which they are used.
It is little bit to look at a short sentence with unfamilliar words.We can take a look at what was said in previous sentence and in the the latter. The key words in the thses sentence can indirectly indicate the meaning of unkown words.The meaning of unknown words can be inferred according to the specific scene mentioned in the context.For example:
Mr. Gardner ran over a pedestrian with his car,when he lost control of it and drove onto the sidewalk.
We suppose you don’t know the meaning of pedestrian,we need to infer its meaning according the context.OK,let’s do it!
1.First of all,from the first sentence,we know that he hit something with his car.So what he hit may be living or inanimate.
2.The last sentence is very important.Because he hit it when his car is out of control and drove onto the sidewalk.So he should have hit a pedestrian.所以他应该是撞了行人。所以pedestrian可能就是行人的意思。

Analyzing context to infer unknown words can exercise our thinking ability.

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