This is the entrancingly entertaining yet amazingly effective guide that shows you how to know the meaning of words that you have never seen or heard before, learn the history of words so that they come alive for you, master an invaluable and permanent technique of word-viewing within 30 days. This is the one book that makes you love to learn.
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More exciting than its title would suggest,
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I originally bought this book at a library used book sale some time ago and figured it might come in handy sometime. When I finally got around to reading it, I couldn't put it down. It is replete with effective ways of learning new words, recognizing how groups of words are related, and how to remember their meanings. But they make it fun with mini history lessons, tales of Greek gods and heroes, and humorous anecdotes of students' malapropisms as well as detailed etymologies. This terrific tome would make an ideal prep for the GRE or any standardized vocabulary test. There are also sections on common Latin, French, Italian, German, & Spanish phrases & expressions. This is way more than an antiseptic, desultory, unrelated listing of vocabulary words. I learned a great deal from this book and I considered myself to have a pretty good vocabulary before I read it. Enjoy!
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The bible for the virtuoso of etymology,
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This is the most incredibly wonderful book written on the subject of words. The approach is not like wordlists but is full of stories and anecdotes. This book is an eyeopener for the wonderful world of words.A must for anyone interested in words at any level.
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I got this book while preparing to take the GRE. Their choice of words and their explanations are very good. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who does not just want to cramme the words for an exam. If you love english, you will love this book.
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IT IS AN astounding fact that the average cultured speaker of English knows no more than one out of ten words in his own language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, New York Times, Saturday Review, Asia Minor, World War, Deep Are the Roots, Mary Magdalene, New Yorker Magazine, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roll of Honor, Samuel Foote, The Child Buyer, Trojan War New!
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IT IS AN astounding fact that the average cultured speaker of English knows no more than one out of ten words in his own language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
longest word, foreign phrases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York Times, Saturday Review, Asia Minor, World War, Deep Are the Roots, Mary Magdalene, New Yorker Magazine, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roll of Honor, Samuel Foote, The Child Buyer, Trojan War New!
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- The Child Buyer by John Hersey on page 43, and page 321
- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on page 237
- Gilbert and Sullivan by Hesketh Pearson on page 77
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 236
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo on page 99
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