As I read this, three very different thoughts came to my mind.
The first was imagining a similar conversation in a Chinese or Japanese home, where knowing words means knowing drawings (hanzi/kanji), and the difference in thinking that causes.
Second, if my child were to say that to me, my reply would be that there is only one Word that you have to know, but He, the Word who is God, knows you more than you will ever know Him.
Third, the lack of a husband in this story is so common that it isn't even mentioned or noticed, and that says more volumes than any dictionary or Siri.
Kids these days are missing so much with the availability of electronics and the internet.
Besides, what’s a kid that age doing with his own cell phone?
His brain is already being rewired in ways that are not good for it.
Scrabble.
You can’t browse Siri [or Alexa or any computer dictionary].
I learned a lot of words just cruising around looking for something else...
Kids do not seem to have that ability anymore...
I don’t think of my vocabulary as being much over average, but try this sometime:
Open a printed dictionary to any page and look at how many words you know. It’s amazing! Of course, a lot of times the same word base has many different forms and that takes up a lot of space on the page but just open the book to another page and you’re likely to know most of the words on that page as well!
When my kids asked me the meaning of a word I told them. Why be so antagonistic? Let them come to you for knowledge and interaction. You are their parent.
As I’ve said many times in the past, the internet has made people lazy.