Provides lessons and exercises designed to improve vocabulary skills, covering such topics as prefixes and suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, homonyms and word pairs, and foreign language terms.
Introduction
vii
Pretest
1
(12)
Laying Roots---The Building Blocks of Meaning
13
(16)
Before and After---The Power of Prefixes and Suffixes
29
(14)
Amazingly Awesome Adjectives and Adverbs
43
(16)
The Chicken versus the Egg---Synonyms and Antonyms
59
(14)
Making Sense of Homonyms and Confusing Word Pairs
73
(22)
Cracking the Case with Context Clues
95
(18)
More Than Words Can Say---Connotation and Denotation
113
(14)
Parlez-Vous Francais? Words from Foreign Languages
