Welcome to VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT!
A well-developed vocabulary pays off in many important ways. Better-than-average “word power” makes it easier to understand everything you read and hear—from textbook assignments to TV news reports or instructions on how to repair a bicycle. And word power obviously increases your effectiveness as a communicator. Think about it: As far as other people are concerned, your ideas are only as convincing as the words you use to express them. In other words, the vocabulary you use when you speak or write always significantly adds or detracts from what you have to say.

VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT was written especially for you.
The program was designed to enrich your personal “word bank”
with many hundreds of high-frequency and challenging words.
There are six thematic books in the series—Everyday Living
Words, Workplace and Career Words, Science and
Technology Words, Media and Marketplace Words, History
and Geography Words, and Music, Art, and Literature
Words. Each worktext presents topic-related readings with key
terms in context. Follow-up exercises provide a wide variety of
practice activities to help you unlock the meanings of unfamiliar
words. These strategies include the study of synonyms and
antonyms; grammatical word forms; word roots, prefixes, and
suffixes; connotations; and the efficient use of a dictionary and
thesaurus. Thinking skills, such as drawing conclusions and
completing analogies, are included as reinforcement.
A word of advice: Don’t stop “thinking about words” when
you finish this program. A first-class vocabulary must be
constantly renewed! In order to earn a reputation as a firstrate
communicator, you must incorporate the new words you
learn into your everyday speech and writing.

 

 

 

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