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Journal of Reading Behavior 1995, Volume 27, Number 2 GROWTH OF A FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT LEXICON Eugene B. Zechmeister, Andrea M. Chronis, William L. Cull, Catherine A. DAnna, and Noreen A. Healy Loyola University of Chicago ABSTRACT The vocabulary size literature currently provides a rather pessimistic view of the role for direct instruction in increasing vocabulary size. A major reason for this pessimism revolves around estimates o