Vocabulary Mastery 4 Author:John A. Rothermich, Barbara Dodds Stanford, Gene Standford This book avoids the pitfalls of teaching obscure words by presenting words that have use in the real world. In the first practice, Focus on Meaning, you test your ability to recognize the meanings of words as you must do when you encounter them in reading a magazine or newspaper article. In the second kind of practice, Words in Context, you tes... more »t your ability to recall the words and use them in the proper way. This practice prepares you to use the new words in your own speaking and writing. In addition, words from previous lessons show up in practice exercises, so there is no forgetting them. As a bonus, this book includes lessons that introduce you to more than forty Latin and Greek word parts on which several hundred English words are based. This provides the key to the meanings of countless other unfamiliar words.« less