Discover It!: The Ultimate Vocabulary Builder - Paperback

by Richard Lederer (Foreword by), Horace G. Danner Ph. D. (Author)

You don't need to memorize vocabulary words anymore! Learn to DISCOVER them with Discover It! The Ultimate Vocabulary Builder. For example, take what you already know (after utilizing the lessons in the book) and apply that to the unknown word. For instance, you might already know, or could easily figure out that fugitive, refugee, and centrifugal all pertain to "fleeing." So if nidifugous is the word to be defined on a college entrance examination, undoubtedly one of the multiple choice items will have to do with fleeing, escaping, running away from, etc. Though you may not know the exact meaning of nidifugous, you will get the correct answer on the examination. If you encounter the word in a text, contextual clues will help you understand the word. Career resource for teachers of all levels, including home educators. Discover It! The Ultimate Vocabulary Builder has been adopted by the Idaho State Department of Education for high school. It has been translated into Braille, talking books, and enlarged print according to specifications of NIMAC. A video is in the making. Discover It! The Ultimate Vocabulary Builder has been adopted by the Idaho State Department of Education for high school. It has been translated into Braille, talking books, and enlarged print according to specifications of NIMAC. A video is in the making.

Author Biography

BA, University of the Philippines, 1955 Ph.D., Educational Psychology, American University, Washington, DC, 1973 A Thesaurus of Medical Word Roots, 2013 A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, 2014