Vocabulary Simplified : Strategies for Building Your College Vocabulary

by McWhorter, Kathleen T.

• ISBN13: 9780321092922
• ISBN10: 0321092929
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Table of Contents

Part One The Whys and Hows of Improving Your Vocabulary	1	(23)
Your Vocabulary: What Your Professors and Employers Know about You	1	(1)
Vocabulary and College Success	2	(1)
Vocabulary and Workplace Success	2	(1)
Worthwhile Investments	3	(14)
How to Learn New Words	17	(2)
Use It or Lose It! A System for Using the Words You Learn	19	(1)
You Are What You Eat: A Daily Menu of New Words	20	(4)
Applying and Integrating What You Have Learned	22	(2)
Part Two Using Context to Figure Out Words	24	(19)
Making Educated Guesses about Word Meaning	24	(1)
Types of Context Clues	24	(13)
What to Do When Context Doesn't Work	37	(1)
After Context, Then What?	38	(5)
Applying and Integrating What You Have Learned	39	(4)
Part Three Using Word Parts to Expand Your Vocabulary	43	(27)
Word Parts: The Bargain Table for Vocabulary Building	43	(2)
Word Parts and Academic Disciplines	45	(1)
Prefixes: Beginnings that Change Word Meanings	46	(10)
Roots: The Building Blocks of Language	56	(7)
Suffixes: Endings that Change a Word's Part of Speech	63	(7)
Applying and Integrating What You Have Learned	67	(3)
Part Four Vocabulary for the Twenty-first Century	70	(23)
Words on Loan: Foreign Words and Phrases	70	(4)
Words Have Feelings, Too: Connotative Meanings	74	(3)
Not Saying What You Mean: Euphemisms	77	(1)
Untangling a Tangle of Words: Doublespeak	78	(2)
Where Do New Words Come From?	80	(2)
Let Your Creativity Show: Use Figurative Language	82	(2)
Stretching Your Thinking with Words: Analogies	84	(4)
Is it Lie or Lay? Commonly Confused Words	88	(5)
Part Five A Weekly Menu of New Words	93	(32)
Campus Terminology	93	(3)
Computers/Information Systems	96	(3)
Law	99	(2)
Health/Medicine	101	(3)
Education	104	(4)
Business	108	(2)
Biology	110	(3)
Psychology/Sociology	113	(3)
Politics/Government	116	(3)
Literature	119	(3)
Arts	122	(3)
Answer Key	125
Index