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Publishers often add _____ to a text to help readers understand the meaning of old words.

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I believ the answer is footnotes.

In books written by Shakespeare and other old authors, they are very common. Footnotes are a tiny number at the end of a sentence that directs the reader to the bottom of the page where the definition of the word is match up with the cooresponding number

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