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One Year of Words: College Vocabulary Enhancement 1/e

Dorothy Rubin

Published July 2003 by Longman
Copyright 2004, 272 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-321-12251-8
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$22.80

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Summary

Rubin,\ One Year of Words/ One Year of Words is a brief, inexpensive vocabulary text that emphasizes word lists to help readers improve their vocabulary. Introductory material on context clues and parts of speech is also included. KEY TOPICS: 52 word lists with exercises provided to help readers develop a college level vocabulary in one year.MARKET: Those interested in improving their vocabulary

Features

  • Brief (under 250 pages).
  • Inexpensive ($15) vocabulary supplement for either reading courses or vocabulary development courses.
  • Includes 52 word lists of ten high-frequency, college-level words
  • Three ten-question exercises per word list.
  • Includes introductory material on context clues and parts of speech.
  • Answer key provided for self-study.
  • An Instructor's Manual/Test Bank provides three additional, preformatted quizzes per lesson for assessment purposes.


Table of Contents



Preface.


Lesson 1.

Words: allot, asset, conservative, covet, economize, frugal, liability, liberal, modify, stagnant.



Lesson 2.

Words: adaptation, antecedent, colleague, interrogate, intricate, persevere, precedent, reliable, reluctant, significant.



Lesson 3.

Words: affirm, coincidence, delete, dilemma, diligent, disdain, eradicate, haughty, isolate, pertinent.



Lesson 4.

Words: candid, frustrate, inquisitive, integrate, naive, segregate, sustain, tacit, terse, verbose.



Lesson 5.

Words: affluent, alternative, concise, famish, fatigue, formidable, mundane, nostalgic, optimist, pessimist.



Lesson 6.

Words: amnesty, covert, curtail, fatal, fictitious, hostile, lethal, overt, relevant, sentimental.



Lesson 7.

Words: aesthetic, affront, antagonize, attitude, characteristic, derogatory, euphemism, hypocrite, inclination, intimidate.



Lesson 8.

Words: apprehensive, bland, discreet, docile, infamous, initiate, miscellaneous, omission, scrutinize, unanimous.



Lesson 9.

Words: acquisition, adept, adversary, anecdote, contagious, curt, paradox, subsequent, variable, versatile.



Lesson 10.

Words: appraise, domestic, exotic, gregarious, irate, mimic, oxymoron, passive, trite, turmoil.



Lesson 11.

Words: apprise, compromise, conform, crass, emulate, plaintiff, pretense, tact, traditional, wary.



Lesson 12.

Words: assumption, assurance, awry, expend, extricate, gullible, inevitable, infidelity, remorse, spouse.



Lesson 13.

Words: anticipate, astute, charisma, cope, duration, idealist, motivate, reality, skeptical, tedious.



Lesson 14.

Words: citation, cognitive, comprehensive, concept, objective, paraphrase, plagiarism, protagonist, subjective, synopsis.



Lesson 15.

Words: compatible, discord, dogmatic, dominant, durable, exceedingly, harmony, literally, prestige, status.



Lesson 16.

Words: adamant, amiable, amoral, avail, demoralize, disarray, emanate, extent, fetid, implore.



Lesson 17.

Words: absolve, animosity, eccentric, encounter, epitome, extant, malign, meticulous, rancid, saturated.



Lesson 18.

Words: assess, constituent, deviate, espouse, heresy, lethargy, rampant, survey, vulnerable, wane.



Lesson 19.

Words: apathy, beguile, caustic, empathy, equanimity, feign, intrigue, livid, opponent, taciturn.



Lesson 20.

Words: crafty, ecstasy, listless, peruse, temerity, tenet, tentative, tenure, terminate, versatile.



Lesson 21.

Words: alien, arrogant, bizarre, constraint, expedite, obfuscate, thrifty, replenish, replete, variable.



Lesson 22.

Words: awe, castigate, laudable, prudent, satiate, sedate, vindicate, vindictive, virile, vital.



Lesson 23.

Words: corroborate, criterion, datum, exonerate, invincible, jeopardy, repent, temperate, significant, valid.



Lesson 24.

Words: abridge, amend, apt, attrition, finite, futile, imminent, infinite, parse, phenomenon.



Lesson 25.

Words: abstract, austere, celibacy, compensate, delve, deprecate, esoteric, improvise, query, redundant.



Lesson 26.

Words: dire, extrinsic, feasible, intrinsic, libel, morality, ominous, ornate, placid, pragmatic.



Lesson 27.

Words: affinity, contemporary, convene, deference, didactic, eclectic, hypothesis, poignant, pretentious, ridicule.



Lesson 28.

Words: empirical, enervate, glib, impediment, intrepid, itinerant, latent, placate, propriety, waive.



Lesson 29.

Words: accountability, assessment, authentic, deduction, equivalent, exclusive, fiscal, inclusive, intense, measurement.



Lesson 30.

Words: anthropology, astronomy, astrology, biology, civics, ecology, geology, philosophy, psychology, theology.



Lesson 31.

Words: ambiguous, belligerent, civil, civilian, civilization, novice, pacify, politics, posthumously, provoke.



Lesson 32.

Words: defer, diffident, dissent, divulge, dormant, hypertension, lucid, morbidity, mortality, procrastinate.



Lesson 33.

Words: agnostic, archaic, atheist, bigamy, egocentric, generic, indictment, innovation, misanthrope, monogamy.



Lesson 34.

Words: anachronism, avocation, demography, innate, magnanimous, megalopolis, recession, tenacious, vocal, vocation.



Lesson 35.

Words: agile, approbation, centennial, centimeter, decameter, decimate, decimeter, kilometer, megabit, millennium.



Lesson 36.

Words: ambidextrous, detente, detention, equivocate, expound, harangue, irrevocable, posterity, supine, vociferous.



Lesson 37.

Words: animate, animosity, depose, dictum, disposition, diverse, dogma, furtive, heterogeneous, homogeneous.



Lesson 38.

Words: bellicose, egregious, erratic, germane, hyperbole, obdurate, paternalism, periphery, Pollyanna, poltergeist.



Lesson 39.

Words: euthanasia, flagrant, magnate, perfidious, plausible, psychic psychopath, sedition, sophistry, stipend.



Lesson 40.

Words: bibliophile, bibliotherapy, collate, condone, euphonious, euphoria, genocide, veracity, verbatim, voracious.



Lesson 41.

Words: consensus, deviant, diverge, obliterate, obsequious, philanderer, pristine, seduce, solecism, surrogate.



Lesson 42.

Words: angst, assimilate, aversion, dichotomy, fluent, pivotal, plateau, plenary, pundit, relent.



Lesson 43.

Words: abyss, adversity, corpulent, discourse, epiphany, expediency, fortify, graphic, introvert, subtle.



Lesson 44.

Words: bilateral, binary, fluctuate, gratuitous, marathon, morose, mortify, peruse, prerequisite, remnant.



Lesson 45.

Words: acrid, ameliorate, annuity, automaton, autonomous, biennial, bilingual, biopsy, biopsy, contrite, podiatrist.



Lesson 46.

Words: accreditation, disparity, endemic, exacerbate, microbe, phobia, purify, putrid, succinct, unison.



Lesson 47.

Words: alias, alien, alienate, anarchy, autocracy, creditor, demagogue, monopoly, monotonous, speculate.



Lesson 48.

Words: anonymous, antipathy, centipede, claustrophobia, credential, creed, emancipate, nadir, symbiotic, unilateral.



Lesson 49.

Words: anthropomorphic, genealogy, misogamist, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, polygamy, potential, pungent, vicissitude.



Lesson 50.

Words: capitulate, chronological, collateral, convocation, misnomer, perception, pseudonym, synthesis, tactful, trauma.



Lesson 51.

Words: dialect, extemporaneous, facsimile, faction, infinitesimal, manipulation, putative, travesty, ubiquitous, vestige.



Lesson 52.

Special Bonus Words for the Twenty-First Century: browser, cineplex, cloning, cybernetics, cyberspace, e-mail, hacker, interactive, Internet, scanner.



Answers.


Glossary of Words.


Scorecard.



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