Includes words carefully chosen to enhance a student's performance in high school, including typical contexts, sample sentences, and quotations that highlight the word.
Each word is fully defined and shown in context with example sentences from well-known authors. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know is a must-have for every grad, perfect for building vocabulary, quizzing friends and family — ...
Readers can see for themselves that the words are used by the very best writers in the very best books.
Edward B. Fiske, Jane Mallison, Dave Hatcher. if you start at the beginning, ... This book follows the style and format of its parent book, Fiske WordPower, which contains one thousand words.* So when you're ready for lots more, ...
100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know is the perfect book for people who enjoy reading about words that have absorbing histories, intriguing coinages, surprising but useful meanings, or have been used by famous writers throughout the ...
The book includes a colorful variety of words, including handy words of just one syllable (such as glib) and words derived from the names of famous people (such as Freudian slip and Machiavellian).
A reference tailored for high school freshman to help them excel in class and advance to the next level.
Avoid vocabulary mistakes with this fun guide to tricky and troublesome words!
Vocabulary for the High School Student
No two people learn the same way, and no one study method will work for everyone. While this book introduces you to different study methods, the aim is to improve your learning, your understanding, and, ultimately, your grades.
The Make-or-Break Year is the largely untold story of how a simple idea—that reorganizing schools to get students through the treacherous transitions of freshman year greatly increases the odds of those students graduating—changed the ...