Vocabulary: Media and Marketplace Words (Vocabulary in Context)

[This book] was designed to enrich your personal "word bank" with many hundreds of high-frequency and challenging words.... [It] presents topic-related readings with key terms in context. Follow-up exercises provide a wide variety of practice activities to help you unlock the meanings of unfamiliar words. These strategies include the study of synonyms and antonyms; grammatical word forms; word roots, prefixes, and suffixes; connotations; and the efficient use of a dictionary and thesaurus. Thinking skills, such as drawing conclusions and completing analogies, are included as reinforcement. -Introd. Table of Contents......Page 4 Unit 1 - Preview......Page 6 Unit 1 - Lesson 1......Page 7 Unit 1 - Lesson 2......Page 10 Unit 1 - Lesson 3......Page 13 Unit 1 - Lesson 4......Page 16 Unit 1 - Lesson 5......Page 19 Unit 1 - Lesson 6......Page 22 Unit 1 - Lesson 7......Page 25 Unit 1 - Review......Page 28 Unit 2 - Preview......Page 31 Unit 2 - Lesson 1......Page 32 Unit 2 - Lesson 2......Page 35 Unit 2 - Lesson 3......Page 38 Unit 2 - Lesson 4......Page 41 Unit 2 - Lesson 5......Page 44 Unit 2 - Lesson 6......Page 47 Unit 2 - Lesson 7......Page 50 Unit 2 - Review......Page 53 Unit 3 - Preview......Page 56 Unit 3 - Lesson 1......Page 57 Unit 3 - Lesson 2......Page 60 Unit 3 - Lesson 3......Page 63 Unit 3 - Lesson 4......Page 66 Unit 3 - Lesson 5......Page 69 Unit 3 - Lesson 6......Page 72 Unit 3 - Lesson 7......Page 75 Unit 3 - Review......Page 78 Unit 4 - Preview......Page 81 Unit 4 - Lesson 1......Page 82 Unit 4 - Lesson 2......Page 85 Unit 4 - Lesson 3......Page 88 Unit 4 - Lesson 4......Page 91 Unit 4 - Lesson 5......Page 94 Unit 4 - Lesson 6......Page 97 Unit 4 - Lesson 7......Page 100 Unit 4 - Review......Page 103 End-of-Book Test......Page 106 Word List......Page 110 Glossary; Advertisers take aims at heads and hearts; As safe as money in the bank!; Freedom of the press, the trial of John Peter Zenger; Read it and buy!; Letters to the editor; Vocabulary stretch Glossary; Speed sells; Ernie Pyle, war correspondent; www.groceries.com; Give it a try!; Television, society's mirror; Vocabulary stretch Glossary; Book and music clubs; Find it in the classified ads; Media stirs things up; Credit cards, protecting your plastic; Trademarks; Vocabulary stretch Glossary; Attending an auction; News services; How to complain...and get results!; Consumer rights; Editorial cartoons; Vocabulary End-of-book test Word list.