Download or read book 400 Words You Should Know written by Fall River Press and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the editors of The American Heritage College Dictionary assembled their list of 100 words every high school graduate should know, the response was over-whelming. The editors received so many requests to reproduce the list, they put it on the Houghton Mifflin website (ahdictionary.com). The site has since been visited by hundreds of thousands of curious minds. This handy book includes valuable information about the words on the list that both prospective and retrospective graduates can put to good use. The editors chose these words because they were challenging. They are the kind of words that a successful high school graduate can learn from rigorous coursework in a standard variety of subjects. At the same time, the words see regular use in newspapers, magazines, novels, media broadcasts, and many other places as well.

Download or read book 500 Words You Should Know written by Caroline Taggart and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential cornucopia of 500 of the best, trickiest and often misused words in the English language.

Download or read book Words You Should Know In High School written by Burton Jay Nadler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eloquence counts! Do you want to ace your SATs, write literate papers, and find the perfect language to impress would-be bosses at job interviews? Words You Should Know in High School helps you achieve the success you're looking for--one word at a time. This easy-to-use book features more than 1,000 essential words that arm you with the vocabulary you need to tackle real-world tasks--from debating current events to writing essays for your college applications. Whether you're an incoming freshman or a graduating senior, inside these engaging and enlightening pages, you'll find sections that help you: Understand commonly misused words Learn popular definitions used in standardized tests Recognize the difference between synonyms and antonyms Perfect spelling and grammar usage Choose the right word for every special course and circumstance Written in a spunky style that's never boring, this handy book is your ticket to a new well-spoken you--willing and able to find the right words for every situation, at school, at work, and everywhere else!

Download or read book 400 Must Have Words for the TOEFL written by Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students whose first language is not English and who wish to study at a university with an English-based curriculum, no admittance test is more important than the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). 400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL helps you score well by arming you with the most important English vocabulary words commonly found on this crucial exam. This timely guide also encompasses the recent changes made to the test, including the emphasis on conversation and spontaneous communication to mirror the interactive nature of the classroom. 400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL also includes: Activities such as paraphrasing, synonym and antonym exercises, and identifying prefixes and suffixes Strategies on how to incorporate new words into everyday vocabulary Chapters on identifying synonyms and paraphrasing sentences, roots, prefixes, and suffixes

Download or read book The Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Jane Solomon and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

Download or read book Fluent Forever written by Gabriel Wyner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Download or read book Financial Words You Should Know written by Michele Cagan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the language of money! Having trouble understanding your accountant during tax season? Not sure how what’s really going on in the economy affects you? Confused by the insider lingo of the stock market? Don’t let perplexing financial jargon hold you back from making smart money choices and protecting your investments. From secondary market and controlling interest to assumable mortgage and double taxation, this comprehensive reference explains the most important terms in plain English. Each entry comes complete with definitions, pronunciations keys, and examples of usage to help clarify even the most complex financial concepts. With Financial Words You Should Know, you can walk the talk of the financial world—and make money doing it.

Download or read book Vocabulary 4000 written by Jeff Kolby and published by Nova Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other vocabulary books list difficult, esoteric words that readers quickly forget or feel self-conscious about using. Here there is a bounty of choice words, between the common and the esoteric, that will flow forth, once learned. Brief Description: English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily conversation to express ourselves more clearly and precisely. Many a vocabulary book lists esoteric words we quickly forget or feel self-conscious using. However, there is a bounty of choice words between the common and the esoteric that often seem be just on the tip of our tongue. Vocabulary 4000 brings these words to the fore.All the words you need for success in business, school, and life!Features: * Word Analysis section* Idiom and Usage section* 200 Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes* Concise, practical definitions* Great for the SAT, GRE and other entrance exams.

Download or read book The Words You Should Know written by David Olsen and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lots of people need a quick and authoritative way to identify and define the most troublesome common words. The usual approach- stalling for time until you can grasp the context of what the person has just said-has its limits. If only there were a list, not of every word (after all, reading dictionaries is no one's idea of fun) but of the right words, the ones that are used frequently but don't quite register when you come across them. The Words You Should Know features straightforward, succinct definitions and sentence examples of over 1200 tough-but-common words. It's the kind of book that can get you out of a jam, improve your performance at school, and help advance your career. And that's no hyperbole, rigmarole, or embellishment.

Download or read book The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart written by Robert W Bly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADULT LITERACY GUIDES & HANDBOOKS. This is a tongue-in-cheek guide to words that any smart, well-educated, pretentious person should be able to drop into cocktail conversation.The reader is encouraged to toss off words such as 'Disestablishmentarianism', 'descant', and 'autodidactic', proving, if not the value of a good education, at least the appearance of a good education.Each word is accompanied by a pronunciation guide and a sentence illustrating its use. Some of the sentences are made up, while others are well-known quotations.

Download or read book Mastering the American Accent with Online Audio written by Lisa Mojsin and published by Barrons Educational Services. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering the American Accent is an easy-to-follow approach for reducing the accent of non-native speakers of English. Well-sequenced lessons in the book correspond over eight hours of audio files covering the entire text. The audio program provides clear models (both male and female) to help coach a standard American accent. The program is designed to help users speak Standard American English with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. The many exercises in the book concentrate on topics such as vowel sounds, problematic consonants such as V, W, TH, the American R and T and others. Correct lip and tongue positions for all sounds are discussed in detail. Beyond the production of sounds, the program provides detailed instruction in prosodic elements such as syllable stress, emphasis, intonation, linking words for smoother speech flow, common word contractions, and much more. Additional topics that often confuse ESL students are also discussed and explained. They include distinguishing between casual and formal speech, homophones (e.g., they're and there), recognizing words with silent letters (e.g., comb, receipt), and avoiding embarrassing pronunciation mistakes, such as mixing up "pull" and "pool." Students are familiarized with many irregular English spelling rules and exceptions, and are shown how such irregularities can contribute to pronunciation errors. A native language guide references problematic accent issues for 13 different language backgrounds. Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

Download or read book 4000 Essential English Words written by Paul Nation and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Big Book of Words You Should Know written by David Olsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what "quatrefoil" and "impolitic" mean? What about "halcyon" or "narcolepsy"? This book is a handy, easy-to-read reference guide to the proper parlance for any situation. In this book you will find: Words You Absolutely Should Know (covert, exonerate, perimeter); Words You Should Know But Probably Don't (dour, incendiary, scintilla); Words Most People Don't Know (schlimazel, thaumaturgy, epergne); Words You Should Know to Sound Overeducated (ad infinitum, nugatory, garrulity); Words You Probably Shouldn't Know (priapic, damnatory, labia majora); and more. Whether writing an essay, studying for a test, or trying to impress friends, family, and fellow cocktail party guests with their prolixity, you will achieve magniloquence, ebullience, and flights of rhetorical brilliance.

Download or read book The Everything Build Your Vocabulary Book written by Valentine Dmitriev and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With exercises, puzzles, and games, The Everything Build Your Vocabulary Book helps you to improve your vocabulary and enhance your communication skills. This fun, interactive book includes: -Words you need every day -Commonly misused words and phrases -Medical, scientific, business, and legal terms -Interchangeable words -Words to use in place of idioms, clichés, and slang This easy-to-follow book painlessly teaches you the words you need to know to sound composed and professional-today!

Download or read book 500 Beautiful Words You Should Know written by Caroline Taggart and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the joy of the English language with 500 unusual, interesting and 'perfect' words that will extend your vocabulary and your appreciation of our mother tongue.

Download or read book American Accent Training written by Ann Cook and published by Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed to speakers of English as a second language, a multi-media guide to pronouncing American English uses a "pure-sound" approach to speaking to help imitate the fluid ways of American speech.

Download or read book The Word Whiz s Guide to the Texas Middle School Vocabulary written by Chris Kensler and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some kids collect baseball cards. I collect words. Hi! I'm the Word Whiz. I'm in middle school, just like you, and I'm going to turn you into a Word Whiz -- just like me! I'm going to introduce you to more than 600 words middle school students need to know for the TAAS, in class, and when doing homework. Important words for important subjects, such as: English Language Arts: "paraphrase, motivation, interpret, metaphor, symbolism" Math: "convert, probability, hypotenuse, median, variable" Social Studies: "civic, inalienable, eligible, posterity, consequences" Science: "buoyant, neutron, friction, oxidation, synthesis" I've also included words commonly used in questions on the TAAS, including "approximate, equivalent," and "opinion." My WhizWord lists have kid-friendly definitions and sample sentences, plus synonyms, antonyms, related words and meanings, and examples of how the words are used on the TAAS. I've also included all this extra cool stuff: * WhizTips: helpful hints on how to learn words and ace tests. * WhizQuizzes: mini-quizzes to help cement the words in your brain. * WhizFacts: general good stuff to know about these words. And that's not all! I also made up some really fun practice exercises. They will help you nail down these vocabulary words by relating them to things we're interested in, like TV, movies, sports, and music. The words in this book will come in handy for the rest of your life. So let's get started!