When does a tory delay things?
When he's dilatory.
When does a tory have no definite plan?
When he's desultory.
Here, finally is the no-sweat way to a larger vocabulary. Through matching
games, fill-in-the-blank games, scrambled-word games, and more, you are introduced
to 600 well-used but often misunderstood words taken directly from the popular
press and found on all vocabulary skills exams. By meeting and reusing each
word at least four times in the book's word games, its meaning is painlessly
reinforced and retested. At the end of the book, a dictionary-style index
of all the vocabulary words provides pronunciations and definitions.
What the reviewers said:
"The Vocabulary Builder could be a valuable supplement for
students who are above average in vocabulary knowledge."
—James D. Riley, Journal of Reading
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An excerpt from The Vocabulary Builder:
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Here are definitions for 85 words, every one of which includes double letters,
ss, ll, ee, dd, etc. They are all located horizontally in order of definition
in the jumble of letters below—but beware, for there are nonsense letters
between many words. And to make it a bit tougher, some of the defined words
overlap.
- a long hostile feud
- changing boundaries to put a suburb within city limits
- not showing a clear-cut attitude on a particular subject
- pretend to know something
- to produce without restraint
- producing a strong effect
- vulgarly flashy
- the money lacking to meet a predetermined goal
- an animal track
- to avenge or repair a wrong
- beside the point
- pleasurable excitement
- unattractive
- to plan well
- irregular or not easy to predict
- helping to substantiate
- fictional story that demonstrates a factual point
- to pick and choose from a group
- a happy escapade
- slip fluidly through a small opening
- not in good humor
- to continually annoy
- a noisy quarrel over nothing of great importance
- effectiveness of, for instance, a sedative
- an American technical expert in London's U.S. Embassy
- it came from Mars, so it's called
- make a bad condition somewhat better
- unless you want to quibble, this is
how it is
- chatter
- since we disapprove of your policy, we'll
your next meeting
- illegally passing a boundary line
- to arouse sharp feelings of annoyance
- much more than enough
- having real-world knowhow
- flitting along in the breeze
- big, unpleasant, crude
- give in
- in a mood to start trouble
- a Brownie point given by an admirer
- search until you find something that's been concealed
- to pass off a counterfeit as the real thing (2 words)
- not successful at all
- try to wreck
- not likely to be offensive
- wander away from the rest
- holding down or back
- to decide a value for taxation
- when someone uses the wrong fork
- someone who disagrees with an established philosophy
- to talk somebody out of doing something
- taking charge of somebody else's life whether they like it or not
- the ability to just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk
- decision to be cordial with one another
- a sense of being of immediate importance
- said of a person who's bad and likely to stay that way
- when something is going to happen any day now
- something that doesn't have the desired effect is _____
- an implied or subtle slur on somebody's character
- an all-out attack
- unrealistically optimistic about everything
- to drain of all emotional and intellectual energies
- had as a condition since birth
- to zig and zag out of control
- what it is when you grab something before others can get it
- publicity exaggeration
- thinking about other things
- this person held the job just before you
- enough to see or measure
- satisfy him so he'll keep quiet
- hostile
- informal kind of talk
- a quick and big growth
- almost without exception
- a lack of responsibility
- 1000 years
- sticking one's nose in where not wanted
- got no respect
- senile or foolish
- ask questions formally and systematically
- perfect, or mighty close to it
- not capable of being broken up
- praise from an official
- get rid of entirely
- recognized as having come from someone in particular
- tell the difference between two things