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Lexical inference strategies play an important role in vocabulary learning, but it is still unknown whether the effectiveness of inference strategies is related to learners’ proficiency levels. In this study, it is investigated how an explicit instruction of word-meaning inference strategies contributes to the success of meaning inference. Seventy-five Korean EFL university students participated in the task experiments (36 for the experiment with treatment of inference strategies instruction, 39 for the control with no treatment). Two reading texts materials containing 10 nonwords each were created. The participants’ meaning inference accuracy rate was tested two times (pretest and posttest after treatment). It was found that the experiment group was significantly more advanced than the control group in meaning inference and only the low-level students of the experiment showed a meaningful increase in meaning inference accuracy. The results indicated that the explicit instruction of word-meaning inference strategies was conducive to successful inference of unknown vocabulary, particularly in low-level students. Pedagogical implications regarding the instruction of word-meaning inference strategies in relation to learners’ proficiency levels were discussed.