The Vocabulary Builder: The Practically Painless Way to a Larger Vocabulary (Study Smart Series) [Paperback]

Judi Kesselman-Turkel (Author), Franklynn Peterson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0299192040 | ISBN-13: 978-0299192044 | Publication Date: March 15, 2004 | Edition: 1

    THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
    The Vocabulary Builder offers entertaining crossword, fill-in-the-answer, multiple choice, and other word puzzles (with answers!) to help students learn a selection of 600 well-used but often misunderstood words.

Editorial Reviews

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A valuable supplement for students who are above average in vocabulary knowledge. -- James D. Riley, Journal of Reading, 2004

Includes creative exercises that would involve students and probably make vocabulary learning fun if not easy. -- Journal of Reading, 1984

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When does a tory delay things? When he's dilatory. When does a tory have no definite plan? When he's desultory.

Here, finally is the no-sweat way to a larger vocabulary. Through matching games, fill-in-the-blank games, scrambled-word games, and more, you are introduced to 600 well-used but often misunderstood words taken directly from the popular press and found on all vocabulary skills exams. By meeting and reusing each word at least four times in the book's word games, its meaning is painlessly reinforced and retested. At the end of the book, a dictionary-style index of all the vocabulary words provides pronunciations and definitions

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Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition (March 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0299192040
• ISBN-13: 978-0299192044
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #801,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Low Stress Way to Improve Vocabulary, and Fun for the Family, July 15, 2010

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This review is from: The Vocabulary Builder: The Practically Painless Way to a Larger Vocabulary (Study Smart Series) (Paperback)

The Vocabulary Builder: The Practically Painless Way to a Larger Vocabulary (Study Smart Series) will probably appeal to those who enjoy crossword puzzles, Boggle, or other similar games. Personally, I don't usually have much fun playing anything beyond Scrabble. However, the short activities (under 5 minutes a piece) weren't bad, didn't require a whole lot of effort (I read the book while working out on the treadmill type equipment), and they stretched my brain a bit.

I was looking more for advice with the exercises that would help me remember difficult words. I think the philosophy of the authors is that we learn best by playing, though.

Although none of the words are terribly difficult, they are certainly useful. I would recommend this book for students who want to do self-study (a painless way to strengthen vocabulary), parents who want to play educational games with their children (this book is perfect for that), and adults who want to do some light / entertaining mental stretches.