Building Vocabulary for College

by Smith,R. Kent

• ISBN13: 9781133590941
• ISBN10: 1133590942
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

BUILDING VOCABULARY FOR COLLEGE is a vocabulary worktext that helps you increase your academic vocabulary through a practical, reinforcing approach that promotes mastery of the words and word parts studied. The text begins by presenting the basics such as common prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Exercises in Part 1 ask you to work through matching, multiple-choice, sentence fill-in, and completing a passage sections. The lessons in Section 2 introduce terms from a variety of academic disciplines to help you succeed across the curriculum. Exercises in Part 2 include matching, sentence fill-ins, and completing a passage sections.

Table of Contents

To the Instructor	p. ix
To the Student	p. xii
Word Parts and Challenging Words	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
	p. 7
Word Parts: ary, co, col, com, con, cor, il, im, in, ir, de, er, or, ist, pre, re, ex, ing, un	p. 7
Challenging Words: quandary, consensus, incongruous, debilitate, hedonist, precocious, reconciliation, extricate, meandering, unethical	p. 10
	p. 17
Word Parts: sub, pro, fy, inter, mis, dis, ob, op, ten, tion, ed	p. 17
Challenging Words: submissive, mollify, intervene, misnomer, dissipate, obstreperous, tentative, correlation, alleviated, prolific	p. 19
	p. 26
Word Parts: able, ible, a, an, super, trans, poly, ver, log, ism, chron, post	p. 26
Challenging Words: inevitable, apathy, superfluous, transition, polychromatic, veracity, epilogue, nepotism, chronic, posthumously	p. 29
	p. 37
Word Parts: para, tele, culp, eu, ante, rect, fid, equ, pan, sym, syn	p. 37
Challenging Words: paradigm, telepathy, culpable, euphemism, antediluvian, rectify, infidelity, equivocal, panacea, syndrome	p. 39
	p. 47
Word Parts: phil, mal, spec, omni, hyper, anti, voc, vok, bi, path, bene	p. 47
Challenging Words: philanthropy, malicious, specter, omnipotent, hypertension, antithesis, vociferous, bilingual, empathy, benign	p. 50
Review Test, Chapters 1-5	p. 57
	p. 63
Word Parts: fin, gni, gno, bell, clau, clu, ambi, amphi, less, pen, pun, intra, intro, man, luc, lum	p. 63
Challenging Words: finale, cognizant, belligerent, recluse, ambivalence, dauntless, penance, elucidate, introspection, manhandle	p. 65
	p. 73
Word Parts: bon, boun, multi, vert, neo, ful, ous, non, aud, extra, ultra, temp, ward	p. 73
Challenging Words: bounteous, multifaceted, vertigo, neophyte, acrimonious, nondescript, audible, extraneous, contemporary, wayward	p. 75
	p. 83
Word Parts: ann, enn, grad, gress, phon, mor, mort, pos, cap, dia, ness, hetero, homo	p. 83
Challenging Words: annuity, gradient, cacophony, moribund, composure, capricious, diaphanous, blandness, heterogeneous, homogeneous	p. 85
	p. 93
Word Parts: contra, contro, counter, ac, claim, clam, die, greg, terr, anthrop, fore, se, soph	p. 93
Challenging Words: contraband, exacerbate, clamor, malediction, gregarious, terrain, misanthrope, foreboding, sedition, sophomoric	p. 96
	p. 103
Word Parts: spar, sper, peri, cred, em, en, tact, tang, macro, magn, the, pseud, vid, vis, gen	p. 103
Challenging Words: disparage, peripatetic, credence, embroil, tangible, magnanimous, monotheism, pseudonym, vis-à-vis, generic	p. 105
Review Test, Chapters 6-10	p. 113
	p. 119
Word Parts: domin, dys, retro, medi, be, apt, prim, al, pot, ize	p. 119
Challenging Words: domineering, dystrophy, retrograde, medieval, bereft, adaptation, primeval, colloquial, potable, ostracize	p. 122
	p. 130
Challenging Words: impeccable, ephemeral, garrulous, meticulous, nebulous, sagacious, specious, redundant, repudiate, viable	p. 130
	p. 138
Challenging Words: catharsis, dearth, guile, lethargy, affinity, affluence, dichotomy, enigma, banal, clandestine	p. 138
	p. 146
Challenging Words: alienation, collateral, deleterious, felicitous, hypothetical, immutable, aberration, impunity, gullible, trepidation	p. 146
	p. 153
Challenging Words: debacle, deprivation, epitome, fastidious, ubiquitous, garner, latent, ominous, pragmatic, placate	p. 153
	p. 161
Challenging Words: arduous, astute, blatant, covert, cull, decorum, enhance, deterrent, exonerate, inexorable	p. 161
	p. 169
Challenging Words: cogent, rationalize, sordid, eclectic, usurp, inundate, germane, perfunctory, acquiesce, nemesis	p. 169
Review Test, Chapters 11-17	p. 177
Academic Terms	p. 183
Introduction	p. 183
Literary	p. 184
Oral Communication	p. 190
Psychology	p. 196
Sociology	p. 204
Social Science	p. 211
Review Test, Chapters 18-22	p. 219
Business and Economics	p. 223
Mathematics	p. 230
Biological Science	p. 243
Physical Science	p. 255
Criminal Justice	p. 267
Medical	p. 276
Review Test, Chapters 23-28	p. 287
Parts of Speech	p. 292
Using the Dictionary	p. 296
Index of Confusing Words	p. 298
Index of Academic Terms	p. 299
Index of Bonus Words	p. 301
Index of Challenging Words	p. 302
Index of Idioms	p. 303
Index of Word Parts	p. 304
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