Building an Active College Vocabulary

Name: Building an Active College Vocabulary
Price: 49.79 USD
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ISBN: 9780321083272

ISBN-10: 032108327X

ISBN-13: 9780321083272

Edition: 2002

Authors: Patricia M. Licklider

List price: $118.00

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Building an Active Vocabulary helps students develop their reading and writing vocabularies by showing new words in memorable contexts. Exercises ask students to use these new words in their writing and speaking. The text shows how to figure out the meaning of new words from contexts; how to use word parts; how to use a dictionary and a thesaurus efficiently and profitably; and how to improve writing through expanded vocabulary. The exercises in Building an Active Vocabulary are taken from college-level texts as well as real-world sources such as magazines and newspapers.

Book details

List price: $118.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




What Surrounds a New Word?



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



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



Contrast, Descriptive Words: Less Obvious Clues II



What is Inside a New Word?



Roots



Using Roots Carefully



Greek and Latin Roots with Fixed Meanings



Prefixes with Fixed Meaning



Suffixes with Fixed Meanings



What Help is a Dictionary?



Survey Your Dictionary



The 60-Second Memory Aid



Using a Word's Pronunciation



Using a Word's History



Using a Word's Cognates



Playing With Word Parts



Common Latin Roots



Common Prefixes



Common Suffixes



Playing with Suffixes



More Play with Word Families



Improving Your Writing Vocabulary



Using New Words



Varying Nouns and Adjectives



Varying Verbs



Using Modifiers



Varying Parts of Speech



Using Words Figuratively



What Help is a Thesaurus?



The Limits of a Thesaurus



Making the Thesaurus Work for You



Appendix


Additional Word Families


Glossaries


Answer Key