The American Heritage Dictionary Define-A-Thon For The High SchoolgraduateHarperCollins, 3 aug. 2007 - 96 pagini The American Heritage Dictionary Define-a-Thon for the High School Graduate offers an entertaining way to help high school students and graduates become vocabulary masters. Written by the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries, this book will encourage students and parents alike to energize their word power. The book has two parts—a challenge section and an answers section. Each question in the challenge section consists of a definition along with four candidate words, of which only one is correct. The answers section gives the correct answer and shows that word in an example sentence. It also provides word histories and quotations by respected authors. All the candidate words are defined, and there is a separate list of the correct answers for quick look-up. The American Heritage Dictionary Define-a-Thon for the High School Graduate offers a fun and easy way for anyone who enjoys language to get on good terms with some useful new words and to appreciate the importance of a strong vocabulary. |
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... about each correct word , while also explaining what the other words in the group mean . Each cor- rect word is shown in an example sentence and ac- companied by an etymology explaining the histori- cal development of Preface Preface.
... about each correct word , while also explaining what the other words in the group mean . Each cor- rect word is shown in an example sentence and ac- companied by an etymology explaining the histori- cal development of Preface Preface.
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... etymology provides deeper insight into the meaning of the word and can be a helpful aid to remembering what the word means in Eng- lish today . Some words have remarkable stories that can't be conveyed easily in an etymology . These ...
... etymology provides deeper insight into the meaning of the word and can be a helpful aid to remembering what the word means in Eng- lish today . Some words have remarkable stories that can't be conveyed easily in an etymology . These ...
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... etymology of the word , so you can learn how this word entered the English language . Occasionally the etymology will contain a word that is not actually preserved in written documents but that scholars are confident did exist ; such a ...
... etymology of the word , so you can learn how this word entered the English language . Occasionally the etymology will contain a word that is not actually preserved in written documents but that scholars are confident did exist ; such a ...
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