Download PDF by Richard Lee Ph.D.: Columbia 1000 Words You Must Know for ACT: Book Two with

TO THE STUDENT

The shortest and most sensible means of studying a language is to grasp the roots of it, that's, these unique primitive phrases from which different phrases are formed.

-- Lord Chesterfield

Columbia a thousand phrases you want to recognize for ACT provides one thousand most often validated phrases for ACT. you will discover a hundred vocabulary-building classes in Books 1 – three. each one lesson comprises 10 new phrases and they're first awarded to you with reminiscence guidance; subsequent, New phrases are indexed in rhyming reminiscence teams and by means of pattern Sentences; the final a part of the lesson are Sentence of completion and Definition Matching perform checks with solutions. some of the most impressive beneficial properties of this publication is that every new be aware is repeated at the very least 5 instances in a lesson so you may have a more robust likelihood to memorize it extra easily.

Columbia a thousand phrases you need to understand for ACT is designed that can assist you grasp all of the completely crucial ACT phrases utilizing our most advantageous reminiscence procedure: A Roots and Rhyming reminiscence process. Let’s take the notice “aberration” for instance and spot how this fascinating new reminiscence process might actually help locate the shortest and most sensible option to memorize new phrases and construct a wide vocabulary:

1. reminiscence information: Memorizing phrases with assistance from Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes.

ion situation or motion; as aberration, ration, inflation, temptation, abbreviation

2. NEW phrases: New phrases are prepared in rhyming teams for simple memory.

aberration, ration, inflation, temptation, abbreviation

ABERRATION n. departure from what's correct or real rhyming sound -ation

3. pattern SENTENCES: pattern Sentences are given that can assist you memorize phrases in context.

This complexity isn't really an aberration or whatever to be needed away, it's the new reality.

4. SENTENCE finishing touch: Sentence of entirety is designed that can assist you memorize phrases via tests.

The patient’s in basic terms _____________ used to be a short lived lapse of memory.(aberration)

5. DEFINITION MATCHING: Definition Matching is designed that can assist you memorize phrases via repetition.

departure from what's correct or actual _________________________ (aberration)

In this instance, the repeated visual appeal of the note “aberration” within the lesson makes it effortless that you should memorize. consequently you will see that merely by means of repeated perform or reinforcement of a brand new note lower than various situations are you able to fairly memorize it so unconsciously that you're going to always remember. Human reminiscence, just like the subconscious, is established like a language. upon getting memorized a brand new observe, it is going to remain on your subconscious and develop into a part of your self. everytime you want it, it is going to come to you instantly like the plant life coming within the spring: it really is common!

Columbia a thousand phrases you want to be aware of for ACT is either a self-help booklet and a textbook for lecture room use. it's the purely vocabulary e-book you'll ever have to grasp the main usually established phrases at the ACT. in case you can spend approximately 25 mins an afternoon with this publication, you are going to support your self extend your vocabulary, building up your notice energy, and lift your ranking at the ACT.

CONTENTS

Unit 1

jocund, refund, rotund, moribund, rubicund
laborious, pernicious, avaricious, inauspicious, prejudicious

Unit 2

lacerate, recommend, consolidate, intimidate, precipitate
lambent, nascent, forthcoming, penitent, pertinent

Unit 3

lampoon, lagoon, monsoon, platoon, tycoon
largess, digress, duress, obsess, transgress

Unit 4

legion, fusion, precision, great quantity, introversion
lucrative, abortive, conducive, cumulative, diminutive

Unit 5

lull, uninteresting, gull, null, skull
lurid, rid, acrid, forbid, rigid

....