Both Uses of
interpret
in
Lord of the Flies
- At last Ralph induced him to hold the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child's voice. Piggy knelt by him, one hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly.
p. 35..8 *interpreting = explaining
- Piggy saw the smile and misinterpreted it as friendliness.
p. 65..2misinterpreted = wrongly understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misinterpreted means wrong and reverses the meaning of interpreted. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
Definition:
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(interpret as in: her interpretation of the data) to understand or explain something in a particular way -- often the meaning or significance of something