Vocabulary simplified : strategies for building your college vocabulary / Kathleen T. McWhorter.

Contents;

Part one: The whys and hows of improving your vocabulary
1. Your vocabulary: What your professors and employers know about you
2. Vocabulary and college success
3. Vocabulary and workplace success
4. Worthwhile investments
etc.

Part two: Using context to figure out words
1. Making educated guesses about word meaning
2. Types of context clues
3. What to do when context doesn't work
4. After context, then what?

Part three: Using word parts to expand your vocabulary
1. Word parts: The bargain table for vocabulary building
2. Word parts and academic disciplines
3. Prefixes: The buildings that change word meanings
etc.

Part four: Vocabulary for the twenty-first century
1. Words on loan: Foreign words and phrases
2. Words have feelings, too: Connotative meanings
3. Not saying what you mean: Euphemisms
etc.

Part five: A weekly menu of new words
1. Campus technology
2. Computers/information systems
3. Law
4. Health/medicine
5. Education
6. Business
7. Biology
etc.

Includes index.