school, in business, and in social situations. A broad vocabulary is power. WORDS is intended to help you increase your word power and, hopefully, develop a love for words. Overview The textbook is divided into six units of study. • Unit 1, Introduction to Words, Lesson 1, discusses dictionary usage. • Unit 2, Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots, Lessons 2-10, discusses the meanings of common prefixes, suffixes, and roots and their use in producing a variety of words. • Unit 3, Spelling Guidelines, Lessons 11-13, presents guidelines for adding prefixes and suffixes to words and for spelling troublesome words. • Unit 4, Word Confusions, Lessons 14-16, discusses homonyms and other words that are frequently misused. • Unit 5, Vocabulary Expansion, Lessons 17-22, presents vocabulary words related to business, computer technology, law, medicine, and government and includes new and emerging words • Unit 6, Extra Word Power, Lessons 23-25, presents additional nouns, verbs, and adjectives that are worth knowing. Textbook Features • Self-Check Exercises. Each lesson contains self-check exercises that allow students to determine their comprehension of the material presented in the lesson. • Key to Self-Check Exercises. A key to the Self-Check exercises is included in the text, which enables students to have immediate feedback. • Keyboarding/Shorthand Activities. Each lesson contains a keyboarding or shorthand activity. Students may elect to keyboard material or write material in shorthand and transcribe their notes—particularly important to court reporting students. • Unit Reviews. Each unit contains a self-checked review, which allows students to test their mastery of the unit.

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