Painless Vocabulary

by Michael Greenberg

This addition to Barron's Painless series is focused to meet the needs of middle school and high school students. The author's friendly, informal narrative style takes the drudgery out of students' vocabulary building, which is a prerequisite for their academic achievement and future success in college and beyond. Each of 24 chapters introduces 15 new words, first placing the words in a brief essay that allows students to comprehend them in a given context. "Brain Tickler" questions that follow challenge students and help them determine whether they have gained some mastery of word usage. Sidebars appear on many pages with titles such as "Major Mistake Territory," alerting students to possible pitfalls and problems involving correct understanding of word meanings and normal usage. Each chapter concludes with an "On Your Own" section, which invites students to use the target vocabulary list within the context of their own everyday speech. Morbid. . . furtively . . . predecessor

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Education, School, Teaching

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

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Michael Greenberg, MA

Reviews

[Ariadna73 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absolutely beautiful. Will keep it as a reference book in my summer house.

[Junjie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Marvelous book with not only around 300 words, but also technics and suggestion on how you could improve your vocabulary.
It is divided into 20 chpaters and each of them comes up with a paragraph first and highlight vital words for learners. And this book describe and explain those word's means. In this way, learners could understand and memorize new words with definition and context. It is a better way to learn new words compared with learning words from a dictionary which is usually boring.

[Pepper]

Lol! my brain seems to be making connections to words I've long forgotten. Thank you, Mr. Greenberg!

[Ashkan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A modest list of 20 vocabulary words per chapter are introduced in a composition followed by some exercises. I would like to think I became a better reader because of this book along with its complement "Painless Reading." For one thing, my vocabulary somewhat improved where I no longer have to look up every word in a dictionary. It took a while to get through, but nothing worth doing is easy.

[Regina Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had fun with this one.

[Mary Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Borrowed from Dayton Library. This will be a good book for use in school this year for my girls. It explains the origin of words, has practice for learning the words, easy explanations.

[Ulat Mulung]

Good

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok