Dealing with words that mean everything at once

I was reading this story earlier and got totally stuck on a word that just has way too many definitions. It felt like my brain was going to explode trying to pick the right one! I usually try to look at the whole sentence to divide up the possibilities but sometimes every meaning seems to fit. Does anyone else struggle with this? I find that imagining the vibe of the scene helps me way more than a dictionary list. Wh