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Word Power in 15 Minutes a Day: Junior Skill Builders

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DECISION to increase your word power. The definition of word power is having a strong vocabulary. That doesn’t mean just knowing lots of words; it means being able to use them comfortably and effectively.Think of this book as a vocabulary savings bank: with each lesson, you add to your word power and get richer. And as you do this, you earn interest on your investment for the future. Once you learn a word, you almost never forget it. It gets filed in your word bank account—your brain—and is available for you to use the rest of your life!The book is divided into four sections designed to build word power in various ways. Each of the 30 lessons focuses on a specific vocabulary skill or family of words.

Section 1: Tools for Building Word Power. In these first nine lessons, you’ll review word roots and common prefixes and suffixes (word beginnings and endings), and gain tricks and techniques for learning new words.

Section 2: Use Different Parts of Speech to Increase Word Power. These lessons help you build an inventory of useful nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to make your writing and speaking more powerful.

Section 3: Build Word Power in All Subject Areas. Think of a part of your life that interests you, and find ways to increase your word power on the subject.

Section 4: Build Word Power in Special Ways. The final section of the book covers ways to use slang, foreign phrases, and confusing and extra fancy words to beef up your vocabulary and become an extremely powerful wordsmith.