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pronunciation help

1. When you look up a word in a dictionary, you find it and read about it.
   If you don't know this word, you have to look it up, because I won't tell you what it means.

   People who often use dictionaries can look up words very quickly.

   When I asked my teacher what "tintinnabulation" means, he told me to look it up.