I'm getting better at understanding them
But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it
personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.
And this is why I make the effort to understand. We don't have to make the same mistakes of the past, we have to tools to understand.
And I do my best, I look up the words I don't know and can't figure out. And worst case I simply ask.