1100 Words You Need to Know
A Barron's
bestseller for years, this book is
better than ever in a brand new fourth edition. In addition to its standard
vocabulary lists, this edition includes a new section called Panorama of Words. In this feature, each of the 1100 words appears in a sentence selected from among well known novels, plays, poems, and even
newspaper editorials and TV broadcasts. The book is a
vocabulary builder aimed directly at college-bound high school students, as well as college students who need extra vocabulary help. Students will find
word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, entertaining word games, and fascinating words-in-context exercises.