A Barron's bestseller for years, this book is better than ever in a brand new fourth edition. In addition to its standard vocabulary lists, this edition includes a new section called Panorama of Words. In this feature, each of the 1100 words appears in a sentence selected from among well known novels, plays, poems, and even newspaper editorials and TV broadcasts. The book is a vocabulary builder aimed directly at college-bound high school students, as well as college students who need extra vocabulary help. Students will find word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, entertaining word games, and fascinating words-in-context exercises.
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Vocabulary building can be quite boring, hence it is easy to forget the meaning of new words learnt, but this book makes vocabulary building enjoyable. Not only are you giving words and meanings, you are also given excercises to do on a daily bases this structure helps to retain knowledge, so that each day you are looking forward to the next excercise knowing that you are not doing too little or too much.
Words learnt in one excercise also appear in the following excercise and this makes one become accustomed to the word...I would recommend this book anyday!
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The method used in this book is the best technique I have ever seen. Each word is used in context, and you are encouraged to guess the meaning. Then you review the meaning using a matching test and a fill in the blank test. It is a stroke of brilliance that the words you have already learned are continually reviewed by being used over and over again in the following chapters. Each week has 4 lessons plus a review lesson, and a different storyline is used each week. These stories are of high interest and very clever. It is hard to put this book down; I have to restrain myself from going on to the next page! My only regret is that I didn't have this book 20 years ago!
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I bought this book a few years ago. It's still a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone.
As I'm a late learner in my forties, I would say this book has much augmented my vocabulary. Moreover, I've bought nearly ALL the vocabulary books from this website. I have SAT vocabulary books as well, all great too.
My review on this book: I rate it as one of the very BEST. I most read this book during tea breaks, during quiet period of business in shop, during babysitting. It has all the key answers to questions, articles with examples of usage, etc. Blank spaces around text allows me to pencil down my notes, mostly examples of usages. Every page has my pencilled notes. That's how much I love the book.
As I'm a late learner in my forties, I would say this book has much augmented my vocabulary. Moreover, I've bought nearly ALL the vocabulary books from this website. I have SAT vocabulary books as well, all great too.
My review on this book: I rate it as one of the very BEST. I most read this book during tea breaks, during quiet period of business in shop, during babysitting. It has all the key answers to questions, articles with examples of usage, etc. Blank spaces around text allows me to pencil down my notes, mostly examples of usages. Every page has my pencilled notes. That's how much I love the book.
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An invaluable aid.
I'm most impressed with this book. As one who works with students, too many of whom have sadly impoverished vocabularies, I have searched for some time for a book that hits the... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Bluecashmere.
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For learners of English not serious vocabulary builders
If you struggle with words such as humility, pragmatic or (I kid you not) technology then this is the book for you. Read more
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Great book!
A very useful method for vocabulary learning! Highly recommended for academic students and for those preparing for exams like the SAT.
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1100 words you need to know
Easy to navigate and written out so you can remember what you've learnt.
I would recommend this for students and for learning at home. Read more
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Published 2 months ago by Linda Fox
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learn new words
found this book every helpful, would recommend to other buyer. easy to understands. will be using it for course work.
Published 5 months ago by naomi craze
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must buy
This is really a good read.. start building your vocab with this before trying any other options.. the paras given are fun and the practice questions help you guess/apply words... Read more
Published 9 months ago by hsng
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Useful book
Very useful for someone who wants to include formal or less ubiquitous words in their vocabulary. The best feature of the book however, is the idioms part. Read more
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1100 Words You Need to Know
A clever approach to improving your vocabulary: English to English explanations, words in context, sample sentences, idioms and more demanding vocabulary. Read more
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I got if for my niece.The book was very useful and is now a best seller with my niece's peers. Everyone seems to want it now. Read more
Published 19 months ago by TJ
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1100 words you need to know
I've bought it for my English study. This book contains many useful words you should know when you read books, newspaper etc. Read more
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