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Vocabulary Tools: Fast and Easy Techniques to Grow Vocabulary for School, Work, or the SAT, TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE, Etc., Second Edition (Spanish, French, Italian, ... Gujarati, Bengali and Korean Edition)

Vocabulary Tools: Fast and Easy Techniques to Grow Vocabulary for School, Work, or the SAT, TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE, Etc., Second Edition (Spanish, French, Italian, ... Gujarati, Bengali and Korean Edition)

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Creator: Nina Weinstein
Publisher: Liberty House Custom Books

Buy New: $17.99

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 904201

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 10 x 0.4

ISBN: 0976079402
EAN: 9780976079408
ASIN: 0976079402

Publication Date: April 11, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Excellent communication is power. If you can tell people exactly what you want, they can give it to you.

Expand your vocabulary fast. Get a cutting edge secret weapon to improve your reading, writing, speaking, test taking, etc. Learn what's been holding you back.
How are words really formed? Why is the real meaning of a word never found in the dictionary? Learn to figure out words that many people don't know -- in a few seconds. These are the most powerful techniques you can use to build your vocabulary. We can't get what we want if we can't communicate it.

The English language has one million words. It's one of the most extensive languages in the world. How can traditional vocabulary books that only choose a tiny fraction of that number expand my vocabulary significantly?
Vocabulary Tools doesn't rely on memorizing long lists of vocabulary words. Instead, you learn tools that you can apply to any word. After studying from this book, native speakers and non native English speakers can often figure out unfamiliar words without a dictionary, even in fields where they have little or no background.

Gain an advantage on tests such as the PSAT, SAT, TOEFL, TOEIC, etc. Enjoy a deeper knowledge of English words. Read and write more effectively at home, school or work.
Learn specially chosen Latin and Greek root words and double, triple, or quadruple your vocabulary. Further increase your vocabulary by learning to see words in pieces. Each piece becomes another tool to use on words you don't know. This approach is used in the best public and private schools. If you forget a fact on a test, you have another way to succeed -- you can use Vocabulary Tools to figure it out linguistically. For example, if a test statement is, Men with sisters can be very philogynous, you will learn to:
1. Break the word into the pieces you've learned in the book -- philo/ gyn/ ous;
2. Use the Latin and Greek meanings of the pieces you've learned -- phil (love) gyn (women) ous (suffix - full of).
3. Use the sentence context to test the meanings of the pieces: philogynous - full of love for women. Can men with sisters be full of love for women? Yes. Even if you had no idea what philogynous meant, you can learn to figure out words like this and other very advanced words, often without a dictionary.

Fast, Easy, Fun
Vocabulary Tools is for busy people who want fast results. Many people can learn the material in the book and do the practice exercises in less than a week. There's an extensive Answer Key in the back of Vocabulary Tools that not only gives the answer, but explains the logic behind it.




Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A powerful vocabulary-builder!   October 20, 2008
M. Dien (Los Angeles, CA USA)
Without using a dictionary, do you recall the meaning of "plutocracy", "thermophone" and "heliotrope"? Sure, their semantics may be easy for some native English speakers to deduce, but the exact meaning of their references to people, the senses and astronomy may elude others. And how would you apply these prefixes, roots and suffixes in a completely DIFFERENT context?

I've found that "Vocabulary Tools" impressively delivers on its subtitle: "Books for busy people who want fast results". As a Business ESL / ESP teacher and trainer, I had decided to investigate this book as a possible vocabulary-building solution for my students' test-taking and business dilemmas. In short, I had been searching for a productive, systematic method for learning and generating vocabulary that renders results in a reasonably short period of time. Moreover, I wanted an interactive book geared towards both native and non-native learners.

I've been really happy with my serendipitous discovery! I like how the activities in this book immediately engage the learner not only in comprehending new words but also in being able to generate words in diverse contexts. For example, students learn the meaning of words such as "fiduciary", "philogyny" and "pneumatometer" and then the methods in this book direct them to comprehend/use them in a completely different context, thereby solidifying their meaning.

The workbook format is great for visual and kinesthetic learners, and I definitely plan to continue to use this as a supplementary text in future Business ESL / ESP, Academic ESL reading courses and standardized test training workshops.

Ms. Weinstein, well done!


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