Full Description
Acquiring a strong vocabulary doesn't have to be difficult. Vocabulary Power uses the latest research on memory to make this process simple, effective, and enjoyable.
A three-book series, Vocabulary Power:
teaches the most important words from the General Service List (500 words) and Academic Word List (400 words)
presents each word in eight different contexts to help students learn and remember the word easily
encourages students to apply the words to their own lives, making vocabulary more relevant and useful
can be used in class or as a self-study text
Each Vocabulary Power book features:
300 new words -- 10 per chapter
high-interest readings adapted from articles on a variety of up-to-date topics
exercises on word families, multiple meanings, collocations, and expressions that expand students' knowledge of the words
engaging discussion questions and writing topics that elicit natural use of the words
quizzes to check students' progress and minimize teacher prep time
Word Builder exercises and charts in the Appendix to help students focus on the meaning and use of word parts
The Vocabulary Power series includes Vocabulary Power 1 (Low Intermediate), Vocabulary Power 2 (Intermediate), and Vocabulary Power 3 (Advanced).
Contents
CHAPTER 1
Key Words: ambiguous, cooperate, deduce, deny, link, mature, objective, pursue, react, vary
Readings: Can Vegetable-oil Cars Save the World?
CHAPTER 2
Key Words: accompany, contradict, crucial, dynamic, generate, initial, interpret, perceive, precise, sustain
Readings: A Face Can Tell A Thousand Stories
CHAPTER 3
Key Words: attain, coherent, evolve, flexible, fundamental, illustrate, imply, portion, random, sufficient
Readings: Amazon Tribes: Isolated by Choice?
QUIZ 1
Key Words from Chapters 1—3
CHAPTER 4
Key Words: assess, cease, contemporary, highlight, neutral, ratio, retain, source, target, theory
Readings: Evidence of Sixteenth-Century Fort in North Carolina?
CHAPTER 5
Key Words: adequate, clarify, demonstrate, equivalent, indicate, potential, relevant, stable, transform, utilize
Readings: DJ Academy
CHAPTER 6
Key Words: assure, compatible, core, enhance, inevitable, interact, manual, proceed, specify, welfare
Readings: Two Houses, Two Visions
QUIZ 2
Key Words from Chapters 4—6
CHAPTER 7
Key Words: acknowledge, apparently, conform, eliminate, function, insight, justify, perspective, proportion, shift
Readings: Therapy Dogs Seem to Boost Health of Sick and Lonely
CHAPTER 8
Key Words: aspect, commit, distinct, extract, foundation, integrity, norm, rely, scope, trace
Readings: DNA Testing: In Our Blood
CHAPTER 9
Key Words: annual, bond, contribute, expand, incentive, modify, presume, subsequent, ultimate, widespread
Readings: Saving Soul Food
QUIZ 3
Key Words from Chapters 7—9
CHAPTER 10
Key Words: appropriate, collapse, confer, devote, inherent, minimize, regulate, sum, symbol, trend
Readings: Volunteers Catch Pickpockets in Venice
CHAPTER 11
Key Words: anticipate, capable, detect, estimate, evaluate, fund, overlap, primary, resource, terminate
Readings: Five Stars That Could Support Life on Other Planets
CHAPTER 12
Key Words: compensate, controversy, distort, emerge, facilitate, identical, intense, phase, reverse, scheme
Readings: Is Bottled Water Really Healthier Than Tap Water?
QUIZ 4
Key Words from Chapters 10—12
CHAPTER 13
Key Words: alter, consequently, decline, dominate, innovation, impact, occupy, precede, release, technique
Readings: The Influence of Star Wars
CHAPTER 14
Key Words: aware, correspond, diversity, ethnic, period, promote, role, significant, statistics, theme
Readings: American Kids Soak Up Spanish TV
CHAPTER 15
Key Words: attribute, circumstances, constrain, domain, element, expose, isolated, principal, reluctant, valid
Readings: As Moose Population Falls, Wolves Struggle
QUIZ 5
Key Words from Chapters 13—15
CHAPTER 16
Key Words: conduct, contact, emphasize, input, invest, policy, range, secure, strategy, undertaking
Readings: How to Turn an Internship into a Job
CHAPTER 17
Key Words: commission, contrary, evident, hierarchy, integrate, mutual, obtain, prospect, reinforce, substitute
Readings: The Birth of Yao Ming
CHAPTER 18
Key Words: access, considerable, context, equate, impose, manipulate, monitor, notion, parameter, rational
Reading: The Psychology of Conflict
QUIZ 6
Key Words from Chapters 16—18
CHAPTER 19
Key Words: chart, comprise, definite, encounter, external, factor, instance, internal, predict, reveal
Readings: A New Generation of Stronger Bodies
CHAPTER 20
Key Words: criteria, derive, dimension, initiate, integral, orientation, reside, site, sole, unique
Readings: The Stone Circles of Africa
CHAPTER 21
Key Words: coordinate, enable, framework, hypothesis, layer, negate, prime, priority, resolve, voluntary
Readings: Who Needs Harvard?
QUIZ 7
Key Words from Chapters 19—21
CHAPTER 22
Key Words: complex, convene, incorporate, maximize, parallel, sequence, status, structure, version, virtual
Readings: The World Championship in Magic
CHAPTER 23
Key Words: abandon, compound, cycle, enforce, infer, inhibit, maintain, principle, unify, vision
Readings: Come See Art—but Miss the Tide, and You're Stuck at Sea
CHAPTER 24
Key Words: adjust, advocate, cite, confine, coincide, ignorant, incidence, intervene, tense, violate
Readings: Snakes Are Frequent Fliers Too
QUIZ 8
Key Words from Chapters 22—24
CHAPTER 25
Key Words: analogy, bias, confirm, exploit, finite, ideology, interval, legislate, stress, trigger
Readings: Sinking in Credit Card Debt
CHAPTER 26
Key Words: adapt, appreciate, differentiate, implement, liberal, mode, revenue, rigid, sector, phenomenon
Readings: Welcome to Dubai
CHAPTER 27
Key Words: comprehensive, consent, domestic, entity, ethics, implicate, persist, pose, straightforward, underlying
Readings: Google Cofounder Comes to Class at Berkeley
QUIZ 9
Key Words from Chapters 25—27
CHAPTER 28
Key Words: conceive, contract, enormous, erode, explicit, nevertheless, offset, ongoing, regime, restrain
Readings: Gabriel García Márquez Agrees to Hollywood Movie
CHAPTER 29
Key Words: allocate, amend, civil, clause, discriminate, dispose, hence, invoke, margin, suspend
Readings: Casino Ads Target Voters
CHAPTER 30
Key Words: abstract, accumulate, component, exceed, fluctuate, grant, induce, intrinsic, refine, restore
Readings: The Soccer Birth Month Riddle
QUIZ 10
Key Words from Chapters 28—30
APPENDIX:
Word Builders
KEY WORD INDEX
