Contemporary Vocabulary by Elliott L. Smith - Fourth Edition, 1995 from Macmillan Student Store

Contemporary Vocabulary

Fourth Edition ©1995 Elliott L. Smith

This exercise workbook offers a systematic, easy-to-follow approach to vocabulary building, introducing students to the concept of word composition for basic and more specialized word types.
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Contemporary Vocabulary by Elliott L. Smith - Fourth Edition, 1995 from Macmillan Student Store

This exercise workbook offers a systematic, easy-to-follow approach to vocabulary building, introducing students to the concept of word composition for basic and more specialized word types.

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An exercise workbook that introduces students to the concept of word composition with 60 exercise sequences (plus review exercises) on the most basic word parts in English: Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes

Provides an additional 60 exercise sequences on more specialized word types (action and descriptive words, acronyms/eponyms/neologisms, diction choices, foreign expressions)

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Table of Contents


PART ONE: WORD ELEMENTS
  1. The Composition of Words
  2. Words from Latin Roots
  3. Words from Greek Roots
  4. Words with Prefixes
  5. Words with Suffixes
    
PART TWO: WORD TYPES
  6. Action and Descriptive Words
  7. Acronyms, Eponyms, Neologisms, and Portmanteau Words
  8. Diction
  9. Foreign Expressions in English

Elliott L. Smith