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Contents

Acknowledgements
Using this book

Introduction
1 Learning vocabulary - general advice
2 Learning vocabulary - aids to learning
3 Organising a vocabulary notebook
4 The names of English language words
5 Using your dictionary
6 Revising vocabulary
7 Formal and informal words

Word formation

8 Suffixes (e.g. actor, permission, modernise)
9 Prefixes (e.g. over-worked, exhale)
10 Roots (e.g. impress, pressure, expression)
11 Abstract nouns (e.g. faith, hope and love)
12 Compound adjectives (e.g. well-dressed, time-consuming)
13 Compound nouns - combinations of two nouns (e.g. baby-sitter, youth hostel)
14 Compound nouns - combinations of verb + preposition (e.g. drawback, input)
15 Words with interesting origins - people and places (e.g. hooligan, denim)
16 Words with interesting origins - from other languages (e.g. bistro, rucksack)
17 Onomatopoeic words - words that sound like their meaning (e.g. grumble, smash)
18 Words commonly mispronounced (e.g. worry, cough)
19 Homonyms - words pronounced and/or spelt the same (e.g. row, row; bow, bough)

Connecting and linking
20 Time (e.g. as soon as, while, afterwards)
21 Condition (e.g. unless, provided that)
22 Cause, reason, purpose and result (e.g. owing to, with the aim of, as a result)
23 Concession and contrast (e.g. although, on the other hand)
24 Addition (e.g. in addition, furthermore, besides)
25 Text-referring words (e.g. issue, problem)

Countables and uncountables
26 Uncountable words (e.g. information, advice)
27 Words that only occur in the plural (e.g. scissors)
28 Countable and uncountable with different meanings (e.g. paper and a paper)
29 Collective nouns (e.g. a flock of sheep)
30 Making uncountable words countable (e.g. a loaf of bread)

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