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Slightly More Advanced Version,
August 3, 2011 Mehmet Gok "Best Kindle Reads Blog" (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fiske 250 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know (Kindle Edition)
There are 10 Words in every 25 Chapter for a total of 250 words. After every 5 Chapters (50 words), there is a quiz too. Answers are given at the end of the book to quiz questions. This book is slightly more advanced than Fiske 250 Words Every High School Freshman Needs to Know and words are totally different.
For example, first 5 Chapters are titled like this:
1) Aggresive Words
2) Fighting Words
3) Flabby Words
4) Funny Words
5) Farrago
Quiz #1
For each word, pronunciation, description and 2 example sentences are given. It is useful to have this book especially when it is free. I recommend it to every student and anyone who wants a review of their vocabulary.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Caution: this recapitulative compendium may cause logorrhea,
August 4, 2011 contrariwise (Indianapolis, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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I would be duly impressed if a high school graduate knew the correct usage of all of these words. (A few of them stumped me.)
These are words that any avid reader encounters but still may not know the definition. The words are divided into categories with 10 words per category. The definition and examples of how the word can be used in sentences are provided. Then, after every 50 words, there's a quiz.
While a high school student may not find this book to be a lot of fun, I sure did. (And it's free on kindle!)
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Are you smarter than an eighth grader?,
August 4, 2011 CGScammell (Cochise County, AZ) - See all my reviews
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It's interesting to find out what the 250 most important words are high school grads should know. Yes, they are important, but I learned most of these when I was in 8th grade. Many of these mostly adjectives have Latin roots or are derived from foreign words:
scathe, lacerate, disparage,deride. temerity.diatribe, animus (good one!),excoriate, emasculate, flay, bellicose, agonistic, contentious, pugnacious, fractious, truculent, belligerent, obstreperous and jingoist (both also good ones), casus belli, ennui, inertia, phlegmatic and feckless, torpid, lassitude, jaded (!), doldrums and stagnant.
The funny words are pretty good: risible, Rabelaisian (both good!), sardonic, buffoon, Cachinnation, caricature, farce, antics, droll, lampoon, farrago, libretto, pubescent, anomie, quantum, quinunc, assiduous, ersatz, incubus, imbroglio, polygamy.
There are more interesting words, obviously. Examples are given in sentences and sometimes a short history of...Read more
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