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Impress Employers & CoworkersCome Up with the Right Word Every Time!
Judith N. Meyers
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Copyright 1998 Learning Express, LLC.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meyers, Judith N. Practical vocabulary/Judith N. Meyers. p. cm.(Basics made easy) ISBN 1-57685-082-X 1. VocabularyProblems, exercises, etc. I. Title. II. Series PE1449.M428 1998 428.1dc21 97-47189 CIP
Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition
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Contents
Introduction: An Invitation
ix
1 Words from Law, Politics, and Current Events
1
2 Word Meaning from Sight
13
3 Words from Literature, the Arts, and Popular Culture
23
4 Word Meaning from Sound
33
5 Words from Science and Technology
45
6 Word Meaning from Structure
53
7 Words from Medicine and Health Care
61
8 Word Meaning from Roots
69
9 Words from Business and Finance
77
10 Word Meaning from Prefixes
87
11 Words from Names
97
12 Word Meaning from Suffixes
107
13 Words from Other Lands and Languages
117
14 Word Meaning from Context
127
15 Words from Computer Technology
137
16 Idioms and Vocabulary Variations
147
17 New and Emerging Vocabulary
157
18 Campus-Speak
167
19 Looking Backward
175
20 Looking Forward
189
Appendix A: Master Word List
199
Appendix B: Additional Resources
203
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Introduction An Invitation
So much to learn, so little time. The demands of school, jobs, family, and community can seem overwhelming at times. Every day there are exciting things going on and new ideas taking shape that will change the way you look at who you are and what you do. You experience many of these events and ideas through sightwhat you read in newspapers, magazines, and books, on signs, and even on the computer screen. Others you discover through soundon radio or TV, in films and conversations. To be able to share in and be part of this incredible process of communication, you have to have access to its common currencythe language that expresses the ideas, gives the instructions, and reports the events that unite us as a society.
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This book is an invitation. It's an invitation to take a break for just twenty minutes from each busy day, to attend an important daily meetinga meeting with words. By doing one twenty-minute chapter a day, you'll discover the keys to unlocking the meaning of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of words unfamiliar to you now. By taking these new words and adding them to your own language store, you'll increase your ability to express your own ideas and experiences to other people and to better understand other people's ideas in what you read and hear around you. Most importantly, you will gain greater insight into the English language and will develop valuable strategies for learning new words easily and quite naturally as you live your lifebusy as it isfor the rest of your life.
How to Use This Book
Begin by answering the list of questions in the self-assessment exercise that follows. It will help you to think about what you already know about the English language and what you need to do to have a larger, more usable English vocabulary.
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