[imardmd1]

Well, pronouncing “silhouette” is not very difficult to someone who was high-schooled seventy years ago, but it would never have been used in the sense that his test sentence applies it. simply knowing how to pronounce a word doesn't mean that one knows how to use it in a readable context.

[Pol-92064]

When I was an elementary school they gave us a list of words to lookup in the dictionary every day. It was a half hour exercise where we would write down on paper the meaning listed in the dictionary. I learned a lot of words that way.