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The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Smart Vocabulary

Complete Idiot's Guide

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All of us -- from beginning learners of the English language to professional speakers and experienced writers -- know the frustration of not being able to get the right word to roll off our tongues or flow from our pens just when we need to express what we're thinking. Sometimes it's a matter of not being able to recall the right word; sometimes we never knew it to begin with.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Vocabulary will help readers expand upon their language skills by teaching them terms that are grouped together by subject areas that share some element of meaning. For example:

Art

Computers

Literature

Politics

Sports

Business

Fashion

Medicine

Religion

Weather

Law

Food

Music

Science/Math And more

Each chapter is further broken down into subcategories of related words, each with its own quiz/exercise to re-enforce learning. Every word contains a definition, pronunciation, sample sentence, and a list of synonyms/antonyms. Close to 1500 words in all

This book also gives readers additional information on:
-- The most commonly used foreign words
-- The top 150 nouns, verbs, and adjectives
-- Words coined in the last 10 years
-- How to make use of roots, prefixes, and suffixes,
-- Where to locate additional resources to build a better vocabulary

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and More: People Wordsp. 1
It Takes All Kinds: Types of Peoplep. 3
More People Typesp. 13
How People Behavep. 21
How People Behave, Part 2p. 31
How People Thinkp. 41
How People Lookp. 53
And Now, Some Words from Our Culturep. 61
A Few Food Words to Chew Onp. 63
Drink Words on Tapp. 73
Screen Gems: Television Wordsp. 81
The Book Nook: Book and Publishing Termsp. 91
The Lexical Enquirer: Newspaper Wordsp. 103
Lexiconomics: Words from the Economyp. 113
Words at Work: Job Titles and Professionsp. 115
Terms from Business and Economicsp. 127
Business Buzzword Busterp. 137
Bulls, Bears, and Blue Chips: Stock Market Wordsp. 147
The System: Words for How the World Worksp. 155
Legal Lingop. 157
Weasel Words from Politics and Governmentp. 165
War and Peace: Military, Spying, and Diplomatic Termsp. 175
Technolinguistics: Computer and Internet Termsp. 185
A Glossary for Computer Buyersp. 187
More Computer Wordsp. 197
Internetese: The Internet and Its Jargonp. 207
Talking the "Talk" Talk: E-Mail, Chat, and Morep. 217
Vocabucopia: An Abundance of Miscellaneous Word Treatsp. 231
Speaking in Tongues: Words from Foreign Languagesp. 233
Names of Things You Didn't Know Had Namesp. 247
Brave New Wordsp. 255
Making Word Whoopee: Fun Wordsp. 267
Sharpening Your Skills: More Words You Should Knowp. 277
100 Nouns You Should Knowp. 279
100 Verbs You Should Knowp. 293
100 Adjectives You Should Knowp. 305
Appendixes
Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercisesp. 317
Prefixes and Suffixesp. 319
Index of Vocabulary Wordsp. 329
General Indexp. 337
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ISBN: 9780028639970
ISBN-10: 0028639979
Series: Complete Idiot's Guide to S.
Audience: General
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 384
Published: 1st June 2001
Dimensions (cm): 23.2 x 18.7  x 1.0
Weight (kg): 23.3