Question

Suppose you're writing a letter and you recall a word you'd like to use, but you don't know how it's spelled. If you wanted to look up the word in a dictionary, you could use any of the following techniques except

a. Looking up a related word that u can spell in search of clues
b. Looking up the word as you think it's spelled
c. Using the first letter of the word and searching through all th entries under that letter.
d. Writing the word the way you think it's spelled to jog your recall

Answer 1

a, b, and d are good ways to find the word that you do not remember. All of them can help you. On the contrary, the option c. is not a good way, because you will see that there are too many words in the dictionary starting by any letter. So, the answer to the question is the option c. "Using the first letter of the word and searching through all the entries under that letter" is the answer to the question", which definitely is not a good technique to find the word that you want.