Three thousand carefully selected words taken from literature, textbooks, and SAT-prep books are the basis of this exciting vocabulary series that teaches new words through reading, writing, and a variety of exercises. Each lesson's alphabetized word list gives pronunciations, parts of speech, and concise definitions, and uses each word in a sentence. Interesting, engaging, and acting as a mnemonic anchor for the word, sentences are anything but boring! Comprehension of the vocabulary words is facilitated and reinforced through the five different exercises repeated in each lesson; new for the 2nd, expanded edition of Wordly Wise, reading first strategies as well as Greek and Latin word studies with prefixes, suffixes, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and analogies.
Wordly Wise 3000, Book 12 contains 20 chapters; words taught in this book include: consanguinity, desuetude, dolorous, educe, expatiate, forte, genealogy, mores, nadir, peruse, polemic, quadrennial, ramification, variegated, verisimilitude, wraith and more. This 2nd Edition book replaces the previous Wordly Wise 3000, Book 9.The exercise "Word study" replaces "synonyms, antonyms and analogies" in the new edition. 193 two-tone pages, softcover.
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