Century Vocabula
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共 117 题- THE CENTURY HANDBOOK SERIES
- THE CENTURY VOCABULARY BUILDER.
- By GARLAND GREEVER
- JOSEPH M. BACHELOR
- TO
- DANA H. FERRIN
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTERS
- I. REASONS FOR INCREASING YOUR VOCABULARY.
- XI. RETROSPECT
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
- CENTURY VOCABULARY BUILDER
- REASONS FOR INCREASING YOUR VOCABULARY
- II
- WORDS IN COMBINATION: SOME PITFALLS
- EXERCISE - Tameness
- EXERCISE - Slovenliness I
- EXERCISE - Slovenliness II
- 2. Correct the following sentences:
- EXERCISE - Slovenliness III
- EXERCISE - Slovenliness IV
- EXERCISE - Wordiness I
- EXERCISE - Wordiness II
- 3. Condense the following:
- 4. Condense the following into telegrams of ten words or less:
- 5. The following telegrams are ambiguous. Clarify them.
- 7. Compress 6a and 6b each into a telegram of not more than ten words.
- EXERCISE - Wordiness III
- EXERCISE - Discords
- EXERCISE - Abstract
- 3. Restate in concrete terms such generalizations as the following:
- 8. Make the following statements more concrete:
- A celebrated orator said: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
- 9. State in general terms the thought of the following sentences:
- EXERCISE - Literal
- 1. Give the specifications for a house you intend to build.
- 12. Are these figures effective?
- EXERCISE - Connotation
- 2. Make a list of your own similar to that in Exercise 1.
- 6. What is wrong with the connotation of the following?
- 8. With the most connotative words at your command describe the following:
- III
- WORDS IN COMBINATION: HOW MASTERED
- EXERCISE - Translation
- EXERCISE - Paraphrasing
- EXERCISE - Discourse
- 1. Select topics from the following list for discussion or explanation:
- 5. Analyze or explain:
- 8. Give a narrative of:
- 9. Describe ...
- EXERCISE - Adapting
- 1. Explain to (a) a rich man, (b) a poor man the blessings of poverty.
- 21. Describe a fight for (a) your friends, (b) a jury.
- IV
- INDIVIDUAL WORDS: AS VERBAL CELIBATES
- EXERCISE - Analysis
- EXERCISE - Definition
- 2. Define the following adjectives, adverbs, and verbs:
- EXERCISE - Dictionary
- EXERCISE - Past
- I _prevented_ the dawning of the morning. (_Psalms_ 119:147)
- Our eyes _wait_ upon the Lord our God. (_Psalms_ 123:2)
- The times of this ignorance God _winked_ at. (_Acts_ 17:30)
- To judge the _quick_ and the dead. (1 _Peter_ 4:5)
- Be not wise in your own _conceits_. (_Romans_ 12:16)
- The _modesty_ of nature. (Shakespeare: _Hamlet_)
- It is a nipping and an _eager_ air. (Shakespeare: _Hamlet_)
- Most _admired_ disorder. (Shakespeare: _Macbeth_)
- Mice and rats and such small _deer_. (Shakespeare: _King Lear_)
- Can honor's voice _provoke_ the silent dust? (Gray: _Elegy_)
- V.
- INDIVIDUAL WORDS: AS MEMBERS OF VERBAL FAMILIES
- EXERCISE - Blood
- EXERCISE - Marriage
- EXERCISE - Relationships
- Reject Oppose Convent Defer Omit Produce Expel
- FIRST GENERAL EXERCISE FOR THE CHAPTER
- SECOND GENERAL EXERCISE
- THIRD GENERAL EXERCISE
- FOURTH GENERAL EXERCISE
- VI
- WORDS IN PAIRS
- EXERCISE - Opposites
- EXERCISE - Confused
- EXERCISE - Parallels
- VII
- SYNONYMS IN LARGER GROUPS (1)
- EXERCISE A
- VIII
- SYNONYMS IN LARGER GROUPS (2)
- EXERCISE B
- In Exercise A: walk, laugh, busy, hate, masculine, old
- In Exercise A: sing, death
- EXERCISE C
- EXERCISE D
- EXERCISE E
- EXERCISE F
- EXERCISE G
- IX
- MANY-SIDED WORDS
- EXERCISE H
- EXERCISE I
- EXERCISE J
- EXERCISE K
- EXERCISE L
- EXERCISE M
- Name the various kinds of bodies of water (oceans, rivers, lagoons, etc.)
- SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF WORDS
- EXERCISE - Supplementary
- XI
- RETROSPECT
- APPENDICES
- READING LISTS
- INDEX.
- THE END