Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day

  • 1h 37m
  • Edie Schwager
  • Career Press, Inc.
  • 1996

Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a comprehensive method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech and how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide provides roots, stems, and elements of words so that you can increase your vocabulary with thousands of new words. Sprinkled throughout the book are fascinating stories about words and origins.

In this Book

  • A: abridge—avuncular
  • B: bagatelle—buff
  • C: cacophony—cyberspace
  • D: dearth—dyslexia
  • E: ebullient—extrovert
  • F: fauna—frenetic
  • G: gaffe—grist
  • H: hagiography—hypothermia
  • I: icon—iota
  • J: jaundiced—juxtaposed
  • K: kaleidoscope—kudos
  • L: lacerate—lupine
  • M: magnanimous—myopia
  • N: narcissism—numismatist
  • O: obnoxious—oxymoron
  • P: paleography—pyromaniac
  • Q: quadrilateral—quintessence
  • R: ramifications—ruthless
  • S: sadism—synergy
  • T: taciturn—truncate
  • U: ubiquitous—ursine
  • V: vacillate—vulpine
  • W: waive—wreak
  • X: xenophile—xylography
  • Y: YAG—yeoman
  • Z: zeal—zoology
  • A: a, an (not without)—aqua (water)
  • B: be (on, around, over, thoroughly)—bio (life, living)
  • C: capit (head)—crypt (secret hidden)
  • D: de (not, opposite of, reverse)—dis, dys (not reverse, deprive of, opposite of)
  • E: e, ex (out of, away, not missing, absent)—extra (beyond, outside)
  • F: fold (multiplied by, times)
  • G: gyn (woman, feminine)
  • H: hex (six)—hypo (under, beneath, down, below normal)
  • I: iatr (medicine, physician)—intra (within, inward, on the inside)
  • L: leg (law, legal)—log (speech, word, discourse, thought)
  • M: magn (great, large)—milli (thousandth)
  • N: neo (new, recent)—nomen (name)
  • O: ose (full of, having the qualities of)
  • P: paleo (old, ancient primitive)—psych (mind, soul, spirit)
  • Q: quin (five)
  • R: retro (back, backward)—rubi (red)
  • S: sang (blood)—syn (together)
  • T: tachy (rapid, fast, accelerated)—trans (across, beyond, to the other side, through)
  • U: ultra (beyond, excessive, hyper, super)—under (below)
  • V: vert (turn)
  • X: xen (strange, foreign)—xero (dry, arid)
  • Z: zo (animal)
  • Word Aerobics No. 1
  • Word Aerobics No. 2
  • Word Aerobics No. 3
  • Word Aerobics No. 4
  • Answers to Word Aerobics No. 1
  • Answers to Word Aerobics No. 2
  • Answers to Word Aerobics No. 3
  • Answers to Word Aerobics No. 4
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