Covers the most important words and phrases needed by beginners and elementary-level students.

One in a series of four reference and practice books that will help students to build their vocabulary.

Test your word power with this themed collection of multiple-choice vocabulary challenges.

The animal kingdom - Missing words-travel, etc - Missing words-ways of looking - Colloquial expressions I - Confusing words - Crime and punishment - From shore to crash - Objects and things in the home 2 - Sounds - What is it part of? - Idioms of comparison - Cartoons - Newspaper misprints - Group the words - Verb + noun combinations - Fill in the missing letters.

This book presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) "Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homophones"; (2) "Build through Word Structure: Base Words and Prefixes"; (3) "Build through Word Endings: Base Words and Suffixes"; (4) "Find Related Words and Grow"; (5) "Gain Meaning from Context"; (6) "Say Exactly What You Mean"; (7) "Play the Analogies Game"; (8) "Create Word Maps and Word Webs"; (9) "Search for Treasure in Dictionaries and Thesauruses"; (10) "Learn More about Word Structure: Roots and Affixes"; "Discover Latin and Greek Word Families"; and (12) "Take a Foreign Tour: Words from Other Languages." An epilogue, "Keep Building Your Vocabulary: An Ongoing Process," is attached. (RS)