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The best way to figure out a word's connotation is to view that word in its authentic environment. And the best way to find authentic environment is through a corpus of English. Through corpus linguistic site, such as the BYU corpus (COCA) you can see words in sentences that show the context of the word in question. You can go to the site, it is free, and register. Then select COCA and feed the word into the wordandphrase.info site. On Frequency page, type the word in and then look at the concordances. Be sure to mark the word's part of speech. You will see a column of sentences that contain the word. You can also see the excerpt from which the line was selected. Then you can judge the connotation of the word. I would not rely on asking other people how they interpret the word, unless you are around English graduate students or professors. Most people are not savvy enough to delve into the analysis of language use. Corpus linguistics is what you can trust.

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