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Building an Active College Vocabulary

By Patricia Licklider

ISBN-10: 0-321-08327-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-08327-2What's this?

Published by Longman

© 2002

Pub. Date: Jun 11, 2001

Format: Paper

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Table of Contents

UNIT 1: WHAT SURROUNDS A NEW WORD?

 1. Definitions and Restatements, Examples, Demonstratives: Obvious Clues to Meaning.

 2. Repetition, Lists, Repeated Word Patterns: Less Obvious Clues I.

 3. Contrast, Descriptive Words: Less Obvious Clues II.

UNIT 2: WHAT IS INSIDE A NEW WORD?

 4. Roots.

 5. Using Roots Carefully.

 6. Greek and Latin Roots with Fixed Meanings.

 7. Prefixes with Fixed Meaning.

 8. Suffixes with Fixed Meanings.

UNIT 3: WHAT HELP IS A DICTIONARY?

 9. Survey Your Dictionary.

10. The 60-Second Memory Aid.

11. Using a Word's Pronunciation.

12. Using a Word's History.

13. Using a Word's Cognates.

UNIT 4: PLAYING WITH WORD PARTS.

14. Common Latin Roots.

15. Common Prefixes.

16. Common Suffixes.

17. Playing with Suffixes.

18. More Play with Word Families.

UNIT 5: IMPROVING YOUR WRITING VOCABULARY.

19. Using New Words.

20. Varying Nouns and Adjectives.

21. Varying Verbs.

22. Using Modifiers.

23. Varying Parts of Speech.

24. Using Words Figuratively.

UNIT 6: WHAT HELP IS A THESAURUS?

25. The Limits of a Thesaurus.

26. Making the Thesaurus Work for You.

Unit 7: Appendix: Additional Word Families.

Glossaries.

Answer Key.

Index.

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