GCE O-Level Vocabulary & Word Study

Vocabulary and Word Study for 'O' Level revises and extends the key vocabulary concepts that were explored in the lower secondary books of the series. In addition, new areas of vocabulary are introduced, including portmanteau words, words from other languages and acronyms and abbreviations. In the final chapters of the book, vocabulary for creative writing is covered such as the use of metaphors, similes and personification as well as vivid verbs and sensory description. A series of Vocabulary Challenge exercises completes the book. The exercises contain sentence completion questions that give students the opportunity to assimilate essential words of an advanced level into their vocabulary arsenal.

The endeavour in writing this book has been to provide students with the word study skills to continue their exploration of English vocabulary, and to simultaneously build up their repertoire of known words to help with the development of their reading and writing skills.

Contents

• Unit 1 Synonyms
• Unit 2 Compound Words
• Unit 3 Word Parts (I): Root Words
• Unit 4 Word Parts (II): Prefixes and Suffixes
• Unit 5 Word Parts (III): Combining Roots and Affixes
• Unit 6 Word Forms
• Unit 7 Idioms
• Unit 8 Commonly Confused Words
• Unit 9 Phrasal Verbs
• Unit 10 Denotation and Connotation
• Unit 11 Words from Other Languages
• Unit 12 Portmanteau Words
• Unit 13 Abbreviations, Acronyms and Initialisms
• Unit 14 Words for Writers: Character Description (I)
• Unit 15 Words for Writers: Character Description (II)
• Unit 16 Words for Writers: Active Verbs
• Unit 17 Words for Writers: Vocabulary of the Senses
• Unit 18 Words for Writers: Figures of Speech - Similes
• Unit 19 Words for Writers: Figures of Speech - Metaphors
• Unit 20 Words for Writers: Figures of Speech - Personification
• Vocabulary Challenge 1 - 5
• Answer Key