Shorter, more idiomatic, and more efficient code attached. Feel free to modify. Output goes to STDOUT, which can be directed to a file. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

@ARGV > 0 or die "Insufficient arguments: Need word file, and Dict fil
+e names";
my ($wordfile, $dictfile) = @ARGV;

open my $d, "<", $dictfile or die "Cannot open $dictfile: $!";
open my $w, "<", $wordfile or die "Cannot open $wordfile: $!";

my %dict = map {split /\s/,$_,2} <$d>;
close $d;

while (defined (my $line=<$w>)){
  for (split /\s/,$line){
    if (my $meaning = $dict{$_}){
       print "$_: $meaning\n";
       next;
    }
    print "$_ is not in the dictionary\n";
  }
}
close $w;

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