Quinley Elliot. Vocabulary in context Work and Career Words

Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2002, 112 p, ISBN: 1-56254-402-0Welcome to Vocabulary in context ! A well-developed vocabulary pays off in many important ways. Better-than-average “word power” makes it easier tounderstand everything you read and hear — from textbook assignments to TV news reports or instructions on how to repaira bicycle. And word power obviously increases your effectivenessas 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. Each worktext presents topic-related readings with keyterms in context. Follow-up exercises provide a wide variety of practice activities to help you unlock the meanings of unfamilia rwords. These strategies include the study of synonyms andantonyms; 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.