The writing of a dictionary is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of 61_________, to the best of one's ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writ

The writing of a dictionary is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of 61_________, to the best of one's ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer of a dictionary is a historian, 62_________ a lawgiver. If, for example, we had been writing a dictionary in 1890, or even 63_________ late as 1919, we could have said that the word "broadcast" means “to scatter,”but we could not 64_________ laid down that from 1919 on the most 65 meaning of the word should become ccto send out programs by 66_________ or television." To regard the dictionary as an “authority," 67_________. is to look upon the dictionary writer as being 68_________ to see into the future, which neither he nor anyone 69_________ can do. In choosing our words when we speak or write, we can be guided by the historical record provided for us by the 70_________, but we should not be bound by it, because new situations, new experiences, new inventions, new feelings are always making us give new uses to old words.

61.recording
62. not
63.as
64. have
65. common
66.radio
67. therefore
68.able
69. else
70. dictionary