Root Words

In this book you will find the Spanish and English words side by side for better comprehension and memorization. You can add thousands of words both in English and Spanish by learning just the 100 most used Greek and Latin roots. Learning word roots from Latin and Greek helps you understand the origins of English and Spanish grammar and spelling. So, by learning these, the forms and patterns of English and Spanish will become clearer to you. By studying roots, you’re opening your brain up to understand many other languages, not just English or Spanish.

Brought to you by Penguin. Susie Dent, bestselling author, broadcaster and word expert, is on a mission to find light in the deepest, darkest corners of our language. It takes just a short browse through the dictionary to spot how it is filled with negative words. But Susie has searched far and...

"The 2000 Most Common Japanese Words in Context: With Example Sentences, Mnemonics, and Root Words" takes a complete approach to learning Japanese, emphasizing the importance of vocabulary development. This audiobook is intended to assist learners, from beginners to advanced levels, across the enormous landscape of Japanese language by introducing the 2000 most commonly used vocabulary. By placing each word in its natural context, students learn not just abstract phrases but also how to apply them in real-world situations, which improves comprehension and recall.

Vocabulary for College and Beyond is designed to help you quickly acquire and easily remember thousands of advanced words, the knowledge of which is expected of a college-level educated person. Naturally, this audiobook is an indispensable tool for those who want to expand their vocabulary horizon or prepare for a college-level English language exam like the SAT, TOEFL, or GRE. This audiobook contains both high-level words and multiple meanings of common words. This audiobook also contains a list of synonyms and antonyms of common words.

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown.

"The 2000 Most Essential Chinese Mandarin Words in Context" is your all-access pass to not only learning the language, but also living it. This ingeniously crafted guide is designed not only to teach you words, but also to welcome you into a rich and ancient culture.

"The 2000 Most Common German Words in Context with Example Sentences, Mnemonics, and Root Words" is an innovative resource that will help students, travelers, and professionals learn German faster. This comprehensive resource expertly combines the most important German vocabulary, placing each term within its real-world context. By using example sentences, the audiobook not only demonstrates the practical use of words but also explains the subtle nuances of the German language, making it an essential tool for both beginners and intermediate learners seeking to improve their fluency.

Bigger & Fancier Words gives you one impressive word a day, but this time the vocabulary is turned up a notch. These aren’t just words to know—they’re words to drop casually into conversations to sound suspiciously brilliant. Every word comes with a clear definition, a hilariously memorable sentence, plus synonyms and antonyms to round it all out. That’s right—your brain is about to get a vocabulary glow-up.

There are times when the world feels more divided than ever. But it is important to remember the things that unite rather than divide us. Susie has searched far and wide to unearth words and phrases - old, new, and long-forgotten - that celebrate harmony, unity, and the universal languages that connect people across the world.

En este libro encontrará palabras frecuentes en español que comparten la misma raíz. Por lo tanto, descubrirá que es muy fácil relacionar diferentes palabras en español con una raíz común y recordar así su significado. Al estudiar las raíces, estás abriendo tu cerebro para comprender muchos otros idiomas, no solo el español. En este libro encontrará una buena guía de palabras raíz en español y cómo usarlas.

You will find in this book frequent English words that share the same root. Therefore, you will find it is very easy to relate different English words to the common root and remember its meaning. In this book, you'll find a great guide to English root words and how to use them.

So basically this audiobook has a lot of highfalutin, big shot, 52 cent words that are not used that often in normal conversations (or are they?). Once you learn them you will start to hear and see them all the time in books and movies and when eavesdropping on people's conversations. This audiobook comes complete with 366 words, for every day of the year (plus one extra word for leap year). It has word type, definitions, and a funny example sentence that hopefully gives you a little chuckle and helps you to remember that particular word more easily.