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Scholastic Guides: Building Your Vocabulary

Scholastic Reference
ISBN 0-439-28562-3
188 pages
Ages 10 and up

by Marvin Terban

Everytime you speak, read, write, or listen to someone, you need vocabulary words. As your vocabulary grows, you will express youself more clearly and feel more confident about your schoolwork and tests.

Building Your Vocabulary will help you develop your own vast, vivid, and vital vocabulary. It also includes challenging, but fun, "Vocabulary-Building Games" and "100 Great Words" to know, so you can start using your new vocabulary today.

"This easy-to-read, enjoyable guide says a great deal about language. Students can use it as a way to increase their vocabulary and as an easy reference source."
— School Library Journal


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Excerpt from SCHOLASTIC GUIDES:
BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY
by Marvin Terban

Made-Up Words

Writers, poets, playwrights, journalists, songwriters, and speakers often make up words to fit special situations or to name something new. If enough people begin using these words, they become part of our language and are put into dictionaries.

Reduplications: Fun Words

Sometimes writers and speakers take words and add sounds that rhyme or nearly rhyme, or they double the sounds of words. The new words are called reduplications because the second part of the word duplicates, or copies, the sound of the first part. Here are some reduplications that people use every day.

Rhyming Words

bigwig
an important person

boogie-woogie
fast jazz piano playing

boo hoo
sound of crying

claptrap
worthless language

even-steven
nothing owed on either side

fuddy-duddy
a fussy person

From Scholastic Guides: Building Your Vocabulary, copyright © 2002 by Scholastic Inc.

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