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The Joy of Vocabulary
The Joy of Vocabulary is intended for high school students whose ultimate goal is to enter a profession.
These ambitious students need a superior vocabulary to help distinguish themselves in their college entrance examinations,
undergraduate courses, graduate school admission tests and - eventually - their chosen professions. This book provides materials
and procedures to enable them to build that superior vocabulary.
Among the features of this book are that it
- Teaches vocabulary in novel groupings: Number words, People words, Body vocabulary, etc.
- Introduces each chapter with a preview enabling students to see what they may already know about the words to be taught.
- Provides a model sentence that shows how to use each word, allusion, or figurative expression taught.
- Teaches how to derive the meaning of unfamiliar words from context clues.
- Teaches key prefixes and roots, together with many of their derivatives.
- Demystifies word analogy questions and teaches students how to deal with them.
- Reinforces learning with abundant, challenging exercises and reviews.
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