Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
Audiobook2 hours
Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 1
Written by David Popkin
Narrated by Robert O'Keefe
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
This book builds vocabulary by presenting the fascinating histories behind those words we need for more effective communication and comprehension. Focusing on a core of 100 words and their background stories, the author links these words with hundreds of synonyms and antonyms. Greek and Latin word parts introduce additional words. Informative and amusing exercises reinforce the vocabulary entries.
Related to Vocabulary Energizers
Related audiobooks
Word Power for Business: 500 Words You Need to Transform Your Career and Your Life Punchy Promos Vocabulary System: Speed Learning Now Vocabulary Builder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Glamorous Grammar Vocabulary System: Speed Learning Now Vocabulary Builder Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Punctuation Guide: 60 Minutes to Better Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kaplan Word Power: Vocabulary Building for Success Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5300 Words to Sound Smarter and Be More Respected Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5SAT Words to Go: Vocabulary Building for Super Busy Students Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing at Work: Strategies for Today's Coworkers, Clients, and Customers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/530 Days to a More Powerful Business Vocabulary: The 500 Words You Need to Transform Your Career and Your Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Webster's New World Power Vocabulary, Volume 4 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Social Savvy Vocabulary System: Speed Learning Now Vocabulary Builder Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Idioms for Kids and Everyday Use Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between: Volume II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Nouns: Special Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThat's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn Any Language Fast: Effective Strategies for Learning Any Language Fast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wnw Power Vocabulary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Making Sense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5You Say Potato: A Book About Accents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Readers Digest's Word Power: 101 Challenging Words from America's Best-Selling Magazine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElevate Your English Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemory Book: The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Memory With Advanced Proven Strategies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5English Pronunciation For Brazilians: The Sounds Of American English Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Silly To Say Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Get Better Grades: Working Towards the Best College & Professional Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Children's For You
Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of God, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anne of Green Gables Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mouse and the Motorcycle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mockingjay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Velveteen Rabbit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Bear Called Paddington Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire #2) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Catching Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Degrees Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary: Thinking, Fast and Slow: by Daniel Kahneman: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Writing: Four Principles for Great Writing that Everyone Needs to Know Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pax Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Island of the Blue Dolphins Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New Kid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ground Zero Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret Garden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The One and Only Ivan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5City of Ghosts (City of Ghosts #1) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
#185 Implied Meaning in English 0% found this document usefulEpisode 58: Distilling down the knowledge for you: Doctrinaire, Distill, Pedant, Invidious. 50% found this document useful#138 Speak Like an American (rep): - Informal English GONNA, WANNA, GOTTA 0% found this document usefulB2 Please and thank you expressions 100% found this document usefulEp. 61 Philosophy and Literature 0% found this document useful
Related articles
You May Be Surprised by What Scares You The AtlanticArticle
You May Be Surprised by What Scares You
Jan 26, 2024
5 min readOn the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist Literary HubArticle
On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist
May 25, 2017
9 min readOn J.R.R. Tolkien And The Creation Of The Modern Fantasy Novel Literary HubArticle
On J.R.R. Tolkien And The Creation Of The Modern Fantasy Novel
Nov 30, 2020
4 min readLe Guin’s Subversive Imagination The Paris ReviewArticle
Le Guin’s Subversive Imagination
Nov 20, 2019
6 min readThe Odyssey and the Other The AtlanticArticle
The Odyssey and the Other
Nov 14, 2017
6 min read11 Great Books You Probably Haven’t Read (But Should) Literary HubArticle
11 Great Books You Probably Haven’t Read (But Should)
Sep 9, 2020
9 min readBooks The Big IssueArticle
Books
Oct 10, 2022
6 min readWhy Has No One Ever Heard of the World’s First Poet? Literary HubArticle
Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World’s First Poet?
Jun 22, 2017
6 min readOxford Eggheads And Numskulls The OldieArticle
Oxford Eggheads And Numskulls
Mar 8, 2023
4 min readOn Frankenstein, A Monster of a Book The Paris ReviewArticle
On Frankenstein, A Monster of a Book
Jun 19, 2018
8 min readStories in Formaldehyde: The Strange Pleasures of Taxonomizing Plot The MillionsArticle
Stories in Formaldehyde: The Strange Pleasures of Taxonomizing Plot
Oct 2, 2020
There is something to be said about the cool rectilinear logic that claims any story can be stripped down to its raw schematics and analyzed as fundamental, universal, eternal plots that have existed before Gilgamesh’s cuneiform was wedged into wet c
16 min readConquering Hell The MillionsArticle
Conquering Hell
Nov 11, 2021
Heaven and Hell have always been located in the human mind, along with God and the Devil, but the mind is a vast country, full of strange dreams and unaccounted things. The post Conquering Hell appeared first on The Millions.
17 min readWhy Was Shakespeare Wary of Writing About Religion? Literary HubArticle
Why Was Shakespeare Wary of Writing About Religion?
Apr 30, 2019
7 min readWriters of the Zodiac: Playful Gemini? You Have a Way With Words Literary HubArticle
Writers of the Zodiac: Playful Gemini? You Have a Way With Words
Jun 20, 2018
4 min readWhat Our Contributors Are Reading This Fall The Paris ReviewArticle
What Our Contributors Are Reading This Fall
Oct 19, 2018
5 min readThe Hunger Artist: Thoreau and the Irony of Performance Art The MillionsArticle
The Hunger Artist: Thoreau and the Irony of Performance Art
Jun 23, 2021
But he offers an interesting lens through which to view both the hunger artist and Thoreau: while they offer their lives as tragic, the audience always receives them as comic. The post The Hunger Artist: Thoreau and the Irony of Performance Art appea
13 min readFive Non-Fiction Books for Writers in an Emergency The MillionsArticle
Five Non-Fiction Books for Writers in an Emergency
Jul 14, 2017
I read non-fiction books that I thought might indirectly tell me something about fiction, even though they were really about something else. The post Five Non-Fiction Books for Writers in an Emergency appeared first on The Millions.
5 min readRemastering The Mythos: Questions For Ruthanna Emrys NPRArticle
Remastering The Mythos: Questions For Ruthanna Emrys
May 4, 2017
When Ruthanna Emrys first read H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," her sympathies were squarely with the monsters — and that sympathy was the seed of her new book, Winter Tide.
5 min readWonderful Call Of The Wild The Critic MagazineArticle
Wonderful Call Of The Wild
Nov 26, 2020
3 min readHankering After Ghosts Fortean TimesArticle
Hankering After Ghosts
Dec 1, 2022
It’s been 10 years since the publication of my book A Natural History of Ghosts (see FT296:42-45). I probably should have written more in it about the writer Charles Dickens. The truth is I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Dickens. I rea
8 min read‘I’m Living In A Question Mark. It’s All Unknown.’ Tom Hiddleston Total FilmArticle
‘I’m Living In A Question Mark. It’s All Unknown.’ Tom Hiddleston
Apr 29, 2022
13 min readA Language Beyond Reason Dumbo FeatherArticle
A Language Beyond Reason
Feb 27, 2020
I grew up in a scientific family. My grandmother Irene was the daughter of the physicist Max Born, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum mechanics and was a close friend of Albert Einstein. She was herself scientifically well educated and h
4 min readThe Monster That Lurks Within Us The Critic MagazineArticle
The Monster That Lurks Within Us
May 26, 2022
8 min readLeila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise Literary HubArticle
Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise
Feb 11, 2020
7 min readThe Seventy-Four Best Entries in The Devil’s Dictionary The Paris ReviewArticle
The Seventy-Four Best Entries in The Devil’s Dictionary
Oct 25, 2017
11 min readHarnessing Ancient Sensitivity Fortean TimesArticle
Harnessing Ancient Sensitivity
Dec 1, 2022
Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness Charles Foster Profile Books 2022 Pb, 400pp, £10.99, ISBN 9781788167185 Charles Foster’s first best-seller – Being a Beast (2016), widely praised as a “strange masterpiece” – had a premise that was hard to
11 min readWrite What You Know? Identity Politics and Fiction The MillionsArticle
Write What You Know? Identity Politics and Fiction
Oct 11, 2017
If it weren’t so illustrative of the loaded identitarian schism at the heart of leftist politics, it would make for the perfect right-wing conspiracy: not only have well-meaning liberals become too PC, they are now roundly dismissed as blinkered by t
14 min readBooks The Big IssueArticle
Books
Sep 12, 2022
6 min readSchlemihls and Water Sprites The Paris ReviewArticle
Schlemihls and Water Sprites
Apr 17, 2018
5 min readHappily Ever After Foreign Policy MagazineArticle
Happily Ever After
Jul 11, 2022
7 min read
Reviews for Vocabulary Energizers
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
1 rating0 reviews