One Year of Words
College Vocabulary Enhancement
Published on 4. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-321-12251-3 (ISBN)
Description
One Year of Words is a brief, inexpensive vocabulary text that emphasizes word lists to teach students a college level vocabulary. Introductory material on context clues and parts of speech is also included.
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Content
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.
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.