First time in book form! A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselling audio vocabulary series.
"People judge you by the words you use." Millions of Americans know this phrase from radio and print advertising for the Verbal Advantage audio series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Now this be...
First time in book form! A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselling audio vocabulary series.
"People judge you by the words you use." Millions of Americans know this phrase from radio and print advertising for the Verbal Advantage audio series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Now this bestselling information is available for the first time in book form, in an easy-to-follow, graduated vocabulary building program that teaches an outstanding vocabulary in just ten steps.
Unlike other vocabulary books, Verbal Advantage provides a complete learning experience, with clear explanations of meanings, word histories, usages, pronunciation, and more. Far more than a cram session for a standardized test, the book is designed as a lifetime vocabulary builder, teaching a vocabulary shared by only the top percentage of Americans, with a proven method that helps the knowledge last.
A 10-step vocabulary program teaches 500 key words and 3,000 synonyms.
Lively, accessible writing from an expert author and radio personality.
Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words.
He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It,...
Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words.
He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as "the best survey of the spoken field in years." In 2005 Harcourt published What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions About Language, and in 2006 Houghton Mifflin released the second edition of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, featuring nearly 200 new entries.
Charlie was pronunciation editor of the seventh and eighth editions of Black's Law Dictionary and a consultant for Garner's Modern American Usage. He is a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications.
Charlie has also been talking about language on the radio since 1985. He has been interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered and been a guest on hundreds of radio shows around the country. For five and a half years he cohosted a weekly public radio talk show on language called A Way with Words.
Charlie was born in New York City in 1957 and earned his B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1981. He lives in San Diego with his wife and two daughters.
Jot down three or four words you want to use on a given day, and on the way to work imagine a conversation with a coworker in which you use them, or try to incorporate them into a letter or report you have to write...Finally, if you encounter a new word in your reading and the passage in which you found it is especially interesting or meaningful to you, you might try memorizing the passage and quoting it in something you write or at an opportune moment in a meeting (查看原文)
Don't try to use a new word too soon, before you have studied it and tested it repeatedly in your mind. Wait until you feel entirely comfortable with a word;otherwise you run the risk of misusing it and embarrassing yourself
Don't use a new word just for the sake of using it. If you suspect that a familiar word may be more appropriate in a given situation, use the familiar word. Be patient and the time for the new word will come.
Also, don't lard your sentences with difficult words simply for the effect. I assure you that this sort of exercise is exciting only for you, never for your listener or reader. Remember that the goal of communication is to be lucid,not inscrutable. (查看原文)
单词书我主要看了两本，一本是《Word Power Made Easy》，另外一本是《Verbal Advantage》，还有就是根据再要你命3000背了一些前两本书没有出现过的单词。从教授单词的方法上来说，我觉得前者更有意思、更可读一些。但从对GRE考试的帮助上来说，还是《Verbal Advantage》更有效，因为它囊括了更多的难词。我用程序对比过《Word Power Made Easy》...单词书我主要看了两本，一本是《Word Power Made Easy》，另外一本是《Verbal Advantage》，还有就是根据再要你命3000背了一些前两本书没有出现过的单词。从教授单词的方法上来说，我觉得前者更有意思、更可读一些。但从对GRE考试的帮助上来说，还是《Verbal Advantage》更有效，因为它囊括了更多的难词。我用程序对比过《Word Power Made Easy》和《Verbal Advantage》与要你命3000的重合度，后者是前者的两倍。但无论如何，我觉得两本书对我的词汇提升都有很大帮助，备考GRE的功劳也都不小。
当然，这两本书不一定适合所有人，毕竟是写给美国人看的书，不是备考的书。但他们对词根的分析和串联，在词汇量的长期提升上还是大有裨益。(展开)
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23 有用 琴酒 2013-05-07 23:26:45
读完一本成为这个会自嘲会坚持观点的作者的脑残粉，而且让我狠狠地检讨了一下自己对语言模糊学习的态度。编排方面最棒的部分是同反和读音纠正。值得一读再读一读再读一读再读。
6 有用 滕子京 2014-04-10 14:05:01
很好的词汇书，每个词都有情境和用法举例，有辨析，有同义词，有正确读音强调，有小测验，后面会反复提示前面学过的词，读起来很有趣味。遗憾的是，跟哲学史一样看到第二章就忘了第一章，刷一遍记不住
18 有用 J&G 2019-08-22 13:35:33
单词书我主要看了两本，一本是《Word Power Made Easy》，另外一本是《Verbal Advantage》，还有就是根据再要你命3000背了一些前两本书没有出现过的单词。从教授单词的方法上来说，我觉得前者更有意思、更可读一些。但从对GRE考试的帮助上来说，还是《Verbal Advantage》更有效，因为它囊括了更多的难词。我用程序对比过《Word Power Made Easy》... 单词书我主要看了两本，一本是《Word Power Made Easy》，另外一本是《Verbal Advantage》，还有就是根据再要你命3000背了一些前两本书没有出现过的单词。从教授单词的方法上来说，我觉得前者更有意思、更可读一些。但从对GRE考试的帮助上来说，还是《Verbal Advantage》更有效，因为它囊括了更多的难词。我用程序对比过《Word Power Made Easy》和《Verbal Advantage》与要你命3000的重合度，后者是前者的两倍。但无论如何，我觉得两本书对我的词汇提升都有很大帮助，备考GRE的功劳也都不小。 当然，这两本书不一定适合所有人，毕竟是写给美国人看的书，不是备考的书。但他们对词根的分析和串联，在词汇量的长期提升上还是大有裨益。 (展开)
13 有用 yihan爱书橱 2012-12-21 12:28:56
这是我至今为止读过的最有趣最实用，读完后记得最牢的词汇书！
5 有用 Joseph.C 2014-10-21 13:34:11
词汇的细致辨析很棒。