What is true about dictionaries?

• A. Guide words help you locate a word
• B. Guide words help a dictionary user to pronounce a word
• C. Guide words show the weather
• D. Guide words indicate page numbers of definitions

Answer: (B)

Guide words are the two small words at the top of a dictionary page. They show the first and last headword on that page, so you can quickly tell whether the word you’re looking for might be on that page and therefore where to turn next. This makes searching much faster because you’re checking a specific range rather than scanning through every entry. They don’t help you pronounce a word—pronunciation is shown separately, usually with phonetic symbols or audio. They also don’t relate to weather, and they aren’t indicators of page numbers for definitions. The key purpose of guide words is to help you locate a word efficiently by indicating the range of words on each page.