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I think it is safe to assume that those who can read the Emacs Manual
also are able to read English -- or for that matter look up basic
words in a dictionary.

   Emacs info could for example tell somewhere at beginning that
   technical words could be looked up by using M-x
   search-emacs-glossary

It could certainly do that, we already define words that using the
@dfn{} command -- though you cannot know if a word is a definition or
not based on the generated Info output.  

Would you like to suggest a patch?