Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know, he looks it up in th
e dictionary. Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's _________. a. lexicon b. parser c. syntactical capacity d. mental set
The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's a. lexicon.
Explanation:
Lexicon is a synonym for vocabulary, that is, all the words used by a person. When someone like Ron looks up unfamiliar words, he is enhancing, increasing, his vocabulary - the number of words he understands and is, therefore, able to use. Now that he knows what "wanderlust" means, that word has become a part of Ron's lexicon.
Since Kenny had to catch Rufus up. Rufus thought that Kenny was his friend. Rufus didn't come to Kenny's house because Kenny laughed at the mean comment Larry Dunn said.
