The vocabulary builder : The Practically Painless Way to a Larger Vocabulary

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Ifhe Vocabulary Builder Other Books by Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson BOOKS IN THIS SERIES The Grammar Crammer: How to Write Perfect Sentences Note-Taking Made Easy Research Shortcuts Secrets to Writing Great Papers Study Smarts: How to Learn More in Less Time Test-Taking Strategies OTHER COAUTHORED BOOKS FOR ADULTS The Author’s Handbook The Do-It-Yourself Custom Van Book (with Dr Frank Konishi) Eat Anything Exercise Diet (with Dr Frank Konishi) Good Writing Homeowner’s Book of Lists The Magazine Writer’s Handbook COAUTHORED BOOKS FOR CHILDREN I Can Use Tools Vans BY JUDI KESSELMAN-TURKEL Stopping Out: A Guide to Leaving College and Getting Back In BY FRANKLYNN PETERSON The Build-It-Yourself Furniture Catalog Children’s Toys You Can Build Yourself Freedom from Fibromyalgia (with Nancy Selfridge, M D.) Handbook of Lawn Mower Repair Handbook of Snowmobile Maintenance and Repair How to Fix Damn Near Everything How to Improve Damn Near Everything around Your Home 'rhe Vocabulary Builder The Practically Painless Way to a Larger Vocabulary Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 1982 Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kesselman-Turkel, Judi The vocabulary builder : the practically painless way to a larger vocabulary / Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson p cm Originally published: Chicago : Contemporary Books, c1982 ISBN 0-299-19204-0 (pbk : alk paper) Vocabulary Word games Puzzles I Peterson, Franklynn II Title PE1449.K37 2003 428.1—dc21 2003050149 To Fran, who loves to puzzles CONTENTS Introduction 1 For starters 2 It's all in how 3 Mystery istory Alphabet soup crossword End play #1 How verbal are you #1 First spotlight Distant relatives 10 Scrambled maxims #1 11 10 Ods and ends 13 11 Meet the press # 14 12 Word twins 15 13 How does it look? 17 14 It's personal 18 15 Second spotlight 19 16 Melodrama matrix 20 17 Substitutions #1 22 18 Focus on idioms 23 19 Strong roots 24 20 Pros and cons 25 21 Meet the press #2 26 22 In a word 28 23 Make-a-word #1 29 24 Onion crossword 30 25 Hors d'oeuvres 32 26 Double threat 32 27 Theater talk 33 28 Substitutions #2 34 29 Battle plan 36 30 Loaded language 36 31 The animal kingdom 38 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 How verbal are you #2 38 Third spotlight 39 40 In-telligence test 41 Scrambled maxims #2 43 After-dinner talk Ad stumper 43 Look-alikes 45 Anty matter 45 A family resemblance 46 47 Meet the press #3 Scrambled maxims #3 49 Desultory crossword 50 52 Four-letter words Make-a-word #2 53 Small talk 54 Common ents 55 Meet the press #4 56 Double trouble 57 Scrambled maxims #4 61 Fourth spotlight 61 62 Substitutions #3 64 True or false More family resemblances 65 Shades of meaning 65 Meet the press #5 67 Scrambled maxims #5 69 Personalities 70 No matter 70 71 How verbal are you #3 A nation of ations 72 Current events 73 Shades of meaning #2 75 Some more personalities 77 Euphemisms 78 Make-a-word #3 79 X marks the spot crossword 80 68 Meet the press #6 82 69 Scrambled maxims #6 84 70 It's about time 85 71 Family resemblances #3 86 72 Why y? Why not? 86 73 How verbal are you #4 88 74 Cat's play 89 75 Substitutions #4 89 76 Double threat #2 91 77 0-0 crossword 92 78 Scrambled maxims #7 94 79 Look-alikes #2 95 80 Fifth spotlight 96 81 Happenings 97 82 Back problems 98 83 Word twins #2 99 84 Word work-out 100 85 4-D crossword 102 86 Scrambled maxims #8 104 87 Meet the press #7 104 88 Words of one syllable 106 89 Sixth spotlight 108 90 Some more euphemisms 109 91 Double-takes crossword 1I0 92 How verbal are you #5 112 93 It's personal #2 1I3 94 Words, words, words 114 95 End play #2 115 96 Loaded words #2 116 Mini-dictionary 119 Answers 141 ... United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kesselman-Turkel, Judi The vocabulary builder : the practically painless way to a larger vocabulary / Judi Kesselman-Turkel... around Your Home ''rhe Vocabulary Builder The Practically Painless Way to a Larger Vocabulary Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS The University of Wisconsin... for clarity For the person with average vocabulary, the best way to begin using the book is to scan the back-of -the- book dictionary whenever an answer is elusive Each time you look up a word,

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