Random House Webster's: Build Your Power Vocabulary

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An innovative guide that shows how words work and how to make them work for you!Read, write, and speak more clearly and confidently with this compact, concise, all-in-one vocabulary-building guide. In school and in business, in public speaking and in private conversation, knowing just the right words to use can make a world of difference. Now, here's a book that puts a world of word power right at your fingertips. It Chapters on word roots, the history of interesting words, and up-to-date vocabularyA thorough pronunciation guide with an extensive list of words that are often mispronouncedSections on spelling and on the differences between American and British EnglishInformation on how to use prefixes and suffixes to dramatically increase your vocabularyAn invaluable glossary of usage to ensure that you choose the right words and put them in their proper placePlus, numerous vocabulary tests and exercises, as well as a section of entertaining word puzzles