Anyone can right click one a word that they don't know and choose "define", but a dictionary cannot define the connotative meaning of the word in the text you are reading. This is an important reading skill that will help you to understand not only what the text says, but also what it is suggesting.
Standards:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty, “MONSTER” “graveyard” “dead”).
Standards:
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).