Overview
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Improve your reading, writing, and speaking skills with this engaging course that will teach you new words and strengthen your confidence in your vocabulary.
Topics Covered:- By This Professor
- 01: Five Principles for Learning Vocabulary
- 02: The Spelling-Meaning Connection
- 03: Words for Lying, Swindling, and Conniving
- 04: Words That Express Annoyance and Disgust
- 05: Fighting Words and Peaceful Words
- 06: Going beyond Dictionary Meanings
- 07: Wicked Words
- 08: Words for Beginnings and Endings
- 09: Words Expressing Fear, Love, and Hatred
- 10: Words for the Everyday and the Elite
- 11: Words from Gods and Heroes
- 12: Humble Words and Prideful Words
- 13: High-Frequency Greek and Latin Roots
- 14: Words Relating to Belief and Trust
- 15: Words for the Way We Talk
- 16: Words for Praise, Criticism, and Nonsense
- 17: Eponyms from Literature and History
- 18: Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Words
- 19: Words for the Diligent and the Lazy
- 20: Words That Break and Words That Join
- 21: Some High-Utility Greek and Latin Affixes
- 22: Cranky Words and Cool Words
- 23: Words for Courage and Cowardice
- 24: Reviewing Vocabulary through Literature
- 25: Words for Killing and Cutting
- 26: A Vocabulary Grab Bag
- 27: Words for Words
- 28: Specialty Words for Language
- 29: Nasty Words and Nice Words
- 30: Words for the Really Big and the Very Small
- 31: Spelling as a Vocabulary Tool
- 32: A Medley of New Words
- 33: Building Vocabulary through Games
- 34: Words English Borrowed and Never Returned
- 35: More Foreign Loan Words
