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Building a Better Vocabulary

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Improve your reading, writing, and speaking skills with this engaging course that will teach you new words and strengthen your confidence in your vocabulary.

Syllabus

  • 01: Five Principles for Learning Vocabulary
  • 02: The Spelling-Meaning Connection
  • 03: Words for Lying, Swindling, and Conniving
  • 04: Words That Express Annoyance and Disgust
  • 05: Fighting Words and Peaceful Words
  • 06: Going beyond Dictionary Meanings
  • 07: Wicked Words
  • 08: Words for Beginnings and Endings
  • 09: Words Expressing Fear, Love, and Hatred
  • 10: Words for the Everyday and the Elite
  • 11: Words from Gods and Heroes
  • 12: Humble Words and Prideful Words
  • 13: High-Frequency Greek and Latin Roots
  • 14: Words Relating to Belief and Trust
  • 15: Words for the Way We Talk
  • 16: Words for Praise, Criticism, and Nonsense
  • 17: Eponyms from Literature and History
  • 18: Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Words
  • 19: Words for the Diligent and the Lazy
  • 20: Words That Break and Words That Join
  • 21: Some High-Utility Greek and Latin Affixes
  • 22: Cranky Words and Cool Words
  • 23: Words for Courage and Cowardice
  • 24: Reviewing Vocabulary through Literature
  • 25: Words for Killing and Cutting
  • 26: A Vocabulary Grab Bag
  • 27: Words for Words
  • 28: Specialty Words for Language
  • 29: Nasty Words and Nice Words
  • 30: Words for the Really Big and the Very Small
  • 31: Spelling as a Vocabulary Tool
  • 32: A Medley of New Words
  • 33: Building Vocabulary through Games
  • 34: Words English Borrowed and Never Returned
  • 35: More Foreign Loan Words
  • 36: Forgotten Words and Neologisms
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Kevin Flanigan

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