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2）根據詞綴猜測詞義
例如：He fell into a ditch and lay there, semiconscious, for a few minutes. 根據詞根conscious（清醒的、有意識的），結合前綴semi-（半，部分的，不完全的），我們便可猜出semiconscious詞義“半清醒的、半昏迷的”。I'm illiterate about such things. 詞根literate 意為“有文化修養的，通曉的”，前綴il-表示否定，因此illiterate指 “一竅不通，不知道的”。
3）根據復合詞的各部分猜測詞義
例如： Growing economic problems were highlighted by a slowdown in oil output. Highlight或許是一個生詞，但是分析該詞結構后，就能推測出其含義。它是由 high （高的，強的）和light（光線）兩部分組成，合在一起便是“以強光照射，使突出” 的意思。 Bullfight is very popular in Spain. Bull（公牛）和fight（打、搏斗）結合在一起，根據兩個單詞的含義可推斷出，該詞指的是西班牙一種頗為流行的體育運動——斗牛。
綜上所述，利用各種已知信息推測、判斷詞義是一項重要的閱讀策略。在實踐中，我們可以靈活運用，綜合運用上面提到的幾種猜測策略，排除生詞的障礙，順利理解文章的思想內容，提高閱讀速度。
三、猜詞技巧的作用
多個實驗證明，猜詞技巧的培訓能明顯提高英語閱讀水平。猜詞技巧是一種學習能力，學習者利用猜詞技巧有助于迅速擴充詞匯量，增強閱讀興趣，提高閱讀能力。
一些考試，尤其是出國考試要求考生掌握大量詞匯，在考試中又會經常出現一些考生沒有見到過的詞匯，而且這些詞匯考生可能很難會再次碰到。要掌握這些詞匯不太可能，在這種情況下，掌握猜詞技巧就顯得尤為重要。
四、猜詞實戰（以08年12月四級考試快速閱讀真題為例）
It was a lovely day at the park and Stella Bianchi was enjoying the sunshine with her two children when a young boy, aged about four, approached her two-year-old son and pushed him to the ground.
"I'd watched him for a little while and my son was the fourth or fifth child he'd shoved," she says." I went over to them, picked up my son, turned to the boy and said, firmly, 'No, we don't push," What happened next was unexpected
shove
首先，我們可以判斷shove是動詞，表示動作。從上文得知這個小男孩“走到我兩歲兒子前，把他推到了地上”，而且“我看到他一會功夫就shove了四五個孩子”。可以推斷出，shove是與push相近的動作。（屬于根據同義替代猜詞詞義）
"The boy's mother ran toward me from across the park," Stella says," I thought she was coming over to apologize, but instead she started shouting at me for disciplining her child, All I did was let him know his behavior was unacceptable. Was I supposed to sit back while her kid did whatever he wanted, hurting other children in the process?"
discipline
根據文中含義，我們可以推知，男孩的母親生氣了，對“我”大聲嚷叫，責怪我“discipline”她的孩子。根據后面提到的“我”的動作All I did was let him know his behavior was unacceptable可知，這里的“discipline”應該有“教育”的含義。（屬于根據同義詞的替代關系猜測詞義）
unacceptable
我們非常熟悉accept一詞，又知un-是否定前綴，-able是形容詞后綴，可直接推出unacceptable是"不可接受的"。（屬于根據前后綴猜詞詞義）。
