Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know, he looks it up in the dictionary. Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's
A) lexicon.
B) parser.
C) syntactical capacity.
D) mental set.

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Ron's habit of looking up unfamiliar words in the dictionary helps to increase his lexicon, or the total vocabulary of words that he knows.

Ron Is an Avid Reader