Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: "dour"

• Context:
  • Rather than his usual mood of cheerful good humor, today his manner appeared quite dour.
    Dulin, Kenneth L. (1970), "Using Context Clues in Word Recognition and Comprehension", The Reading Teacher 23(5):440-445, 469.

• Researcher:
  • Philip S. Rosebrough

• Report:
  "Inferring the Meaning of the Adjective ‘Dour’ from Context"

• Files:
  • demo file
  • script