1100 Words You Need to Know
by Melvin Gordon, Murray Bromberg
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Author: Melvin Gordon, Murray BrombergEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 0764138642
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Book Review: A fantastic way to permanently improve your vocabulary.
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book in 11th grade and was pleasantly surprised at how effective it was. The book expects you to do about 5 words (and one idiom) four days of the week, but I personally went the extra mile and did a "week" (24 flash cards, 20 words and 4 idioms) per day over the summer break. I'm almost done with the book now. If you're willing to fully delve into the program, you'll definitely see some improvement. While some may think I went a little too fast, in the initial passages for each day (in which they use all of the day's words in a coherent paragraph in conjunction with previous words), I always made sure to extract the words from previous days (denoted with an asterisk in the passage) and define them on a separate piece of paper, to ensure that I completely retained the information. Also, as I alluded to earlier, I used flash cards (the result being my desk having a surfeit of index cards...over 1000 at the moment).
All in all, despite my deviation from the standard program, the book is extremely good, and I recommend it to anyone who seeks to augment their vocabulary skills. I can't extol this book highly enough!
Summary of 1100 Words You Need to Know
Updated to meet the needs of students preparing for the latest versions of the SAT and ACT college entrance tests, the new edition of this helpful, longtime best-selling book features word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, word games, and words-in-context exercises. A special feature is the authors' Panorama of Words, in which each of the book's 1110 words is presented in a sentence from a well-known novel, play, poem, or other literary source. A new "Bonus Materials" section commemorates this book's 40th Anniversary as a leader in vocabulary building and test preparation.Dictionaries & Thesauruses Books
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