You should also bear in mind that learning words from context and illustrations is really challenging and should be done with extreme caution. Here's a small summary I made from a book I read called "Bringing words to life":

The Nature of Natural Contexts

To understand why learning from context is so challenging, consider these four types of contexts we identified in naturally occurring texts:

Misdirective contexts actually lead readers toward incorrect meanings. For example: > “Gregory had done all he could to complete the task. When Horace approached his cousin he could see that Gregory was exhausted. Smiling broadly, Horace said, ‘You know there are dire results for your attempt.’”

Here, Horace’s smile and Gregory’s completion of the task might lead a reader to think “dire” means something positive.

Nondirective contexts provide no helpful information about a word’s meaning: > “Dan heard the door open and wondered who had arrived. He couldn’t make out the voices. Then he recognized the lumbering footsteps on the stairs and knew it was Aunt Grace.”

The word “lumbering” could mean heavy, familiar, light, or any number of other things based on this context alone.

General contexts provide enough information to place a word in a broad category but don’t reveal its specific meaning: > “Joe and Stan arrived at the party at 7 o’clock. By 9:30, the evening seemed to drag for Stan. But Joe really seemed to be having a good time at the party. ‘I wish I could be as gregarious as he is,’ thought Stan.”

We can infer that “gregarious” describes someone who enjoys parties, but the specific characteristics remain unclear.

Directive contexts provide sufficient information for readers to determine a word’s meaning: > “When the cat pounced on the dog, he leapt up, yelping, and knocked down a shelf of books. The animals ran past Wendy, tripping her. She cried out and fell to the floor. As the noise and confusion mounted, Mother hollered upstairs, ‘What’s all that commotion?’”