This book is a fun way to build your English
vocabulary. Whether you wish to build your wordhoard for your own personal reading,
writing and listening pleasure, or the pass the college entrance, Civil Service or other professional or pre-professional tests, this book gives you the ways and means to increase your knowledge by thousands of words in very short order.
The average person knows perhaps 30,000 of the over 1,000,000 (one million) words available in the English language. While many are specialized to various professions and fields of knowledge, and others are regional or dialectical in their usage, there are still a large number of words that an educated person needs to know and
understand--the ideas and nuances of meaning conveyed in an ordinary day. This book helps with the development of your knowledge of words--and of how they are formed, their history and usage, and their
relationships to other words. It helps you to understand new words, even if you don''t have a dictionary handy, through the study of roots and derivations and the relationships between words. There are test to practice on and study from, and lists of words, with examples, that one might want or need to know to read the daily newspapers or magazines.