Malcolm X’s attitude towards the dictionary could best be described as .

Dumbfounded or Awestruck could work

Explanation:

Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister, human rights activist, and one of the most powerful leaders of black America during the civil rights movement. In 1946 he was convicted of robbery and condemned to spend seven years in prison.

Being in prison he decided to educate himself, claimed afterward that he spent two days turning over the dictionary’s pages overwhelmed because of the number of words that were unknown for him until that moment, making him realize as well the huge amount of new words that he needed to learn.

Bearing the above in mind, it could be said that Malcolm X's attitude towards the dictionary could best be described as both awestruck or dumbfounded.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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